Q:
My HP laptop cannot visit the LAN, but could connect wireless network normally, why is this problem? Hope to get your any suggestion and help, thank you a lot!
A: when there’s something with sharing and visiting, please take the next steps in consideration:
1. Check up whether the Guest account is enabled
By default setting, XP doesn’t enable Guest account, so to let other use your computer, you can enable Guest account. From the point of security, set password or relevant permissions for Guest account. Similarly, set an user name and password for each other computer, then you can visit each other among the computers;
2. Check up whether it’s set to refuse Guest account to visit local host from network
If Guest account is enabled, but cannot visit LAN at all, then please check whether it is set to refuse Guest account to visit computer from network, because XP system doesn’t allow Guest logging from network by default, so even Guest account is enabled, it’s still unavailable to visit. If face the situation that fail to visit, then please try changing the network visiting mode. Unchain the limitation to the Guest account, click “Start”—“Run”, and type “GPEDIT.MSC” to the “Run” dialog to open Group Policy Editor, take turns to choose “Computer Configuration—Windows settings—Security settings—Local Policy—User rights assignment”, double click the policy “Access this com