Disabled Simple File Sharing

Please bare with me as I experiment and learn.
In a learning exercise, I disabled simple file sharing on my winxp pro laptop. Then I shared a folder adding a user and giving that user all permissions.
If I go to a Winxp Home pc on the LAN and try to access this folder it prompts me for a user and password.
If I put that it denies me access.
What am I doing wrong?

 

The XP-home PC needs the user logging on with a username & non-blank password.

The XP-Pro PC needs that exact same account added to the local users.

Keys here are 1) non-blank password 2) exact same account/password as a local user account on the pro system

 

i'd also check the sharing machine's firewall for checkbox on file & print sharing. should be ON and scope of 'subnet'.

any other firewall settings should be 'allowed' if not using xp's

 

Thanks what about the prompt?

Thanks for the help.
I got it to work that way fine.
But I was under the impression that if the user was not on the workstation trying access the share that there would be a prompt asking for a user name and password.
Do I remember that from Windows 2000?