Re: Network problems

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Gordon wrote: 
"Roy" <qrm5qrt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Mark L. Ferguson wrote:

Sounds like a firewall is active on the LAN card of those systems


Mark, as discussed before, I still have this same problem with just
two PCs on the network.  I can see and access both printers on the XP
Home PC from the XP Pro PC but I cannot even access the XP Pro PC
from the Home PC.  I have disabled all firewalls, I can Ping
successfully from each PC to the other.  I have granted the
 permissions on the XP Pro PC. When I try to Add the XP Pro Printer
on the Home PC I get the message, Windows cannot connect to the
printer.  Either the printer name was typed incorrectly or the
specified printer has lost its connection to the server."  The
printer Shared name is HPLaserJ and was correctly specified and the
Printer is on line and working on the XP Pro machine.

From the XP Home machine when I go to My Network Places and select
the Local Network I see both PCs listed.  If I try to select the XP
Pro machine I get an error message that says I do not have permission
to access the PC.  I don't know what else I have to do.  I have even
tried turning Simple File Sharing on and then off again with the same
result.



Have you tried setting up a User on the Pro machine that is IDENTICAL in
every way to the one used to log on to the Home machine? (ie same username,
same password and same access rights)
That's the usual cause of the message "You do not have permission to
acces...." as in a peer-to-peer network, the security information is held
locally on each machine. In other words you have to physically tell each
machine which users that exist on the network are allowed to access it.

No login is required on either machine. They just boot to the desktop. Also, there is no problem accessing and usint the printers on the Home PC from the Pro PC. I did not have to setup anything on the home PC other than enabling the Network card.

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Roy
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