Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Microsoft Windows XP Professional More...Less On Windows XP-based computers that are configured as members of a workgroup in a peer-to-peer network environment, you may experience one or more of the following symptoms:
Note In a peer-to-peer network, each computer is equal and can initiate communications. In this manner, it differs from a client/server network. This behavior may occur if all the following conditions are true:
This behavior may also occur if File and Print Sharing for Microsoft Networks is not installed or is blocked by Windows Firewall. To resolve this issue, make sure that NetBIOS over TCP/IP is turned on and that the Computer Browser service is running on each computer in the workgroup. To do this, follow these steps.
The Computer Browser service maintains an updated list of computers on the network, and it supplies this list to computers that are designated as browsers. If this service is stopped, the list is neither updated nor maintained. If this service is turned off, any services that explicitly depend on it do not start. For more information about the Network Setup Wizard in Windows XP, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 308522 Description of the Network Setup Wizard in Windows XP For more information about file sharing in Windows XP, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 304040 How to configure file sharing in Windows XP For more information about how to set up workgroups in Windows XP Home Edition, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 813936 How to set up a small network with Windows XP Home Edition (PART 1)
To test whether your email profile works correctly, try to create a new email profile. If you can send and receive email messages by using the newly created email profile, you should configure the new Outlook profile as the default profile. Step 1: Locate the default Outlook data file
Step 2: Create a new Outlook profile Now that you know the name and location of the default data file for your profile, use onlyone of the following methods to create a new Outlook profile. Video: How to connect Outlook to your personal email account Method A: Use auto account setup to create an IMAP or POP3 email account Important By default, auto account setup will create an IMAP account if your email server supports both IMAP and POP3. In order to create a POP3 account, you will have to follow the manual steps. However, if your email server supports only POP3, auto account setup will create a POP3 account.
Method B: Manually create an IMAP or POP3 email account
Step 3: Configure your new Outlook profile as the default profile If the new Outlook email profile works correctly, set the new Outlook profile as the default profile, and then move your email messages to the new profile.
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