networking share / printer issues

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Hello tech gurus,

I'm having issues connecting to shares on my small 2 computer network.

This is my setup. One computer is running xp home and one is running
xp pro.

I realize I really should reformat with pro on the home machine, but
it'll be a big job so I'd like to get it working without doing this.

I have netbios and the wizard setup on both machines.
The odd thing is the home machine (A) can see the pro machine (B) and
access its shares.
However, B can see A and its computer name on the network. But when
clicking A to connect, it returns with "//A is not accessible. You may
not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the the
admin...Access is denied."

I seem to have limited control over the shares on the xp home
machine(A) since it is home edition. However, it seems everything is
setup so i should be able to share the printers and a folder. I've set
both a folder and printer, using properties->sharing, to share, on the
home machine but access is still denied when trying to access it from
the pro machine.

I'm guessing it is a permissions thing but I really don't know what
else to try. I read something about logging in as the same user on
both machines, should this really be necessary though? Isn't that idea
of sharing on a network, that different users share their files?

Any help at all is much appreciated!


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