network share issue between 2 xp pro computers

From: ibmman (ibmman85_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 04/02/04 

Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 22:06:36 -0800

My windows 2000 install on this computer recently died
pretty hard (bluescreened but restarted too quickly to see
what the error was and repair install didnt help) so I
backed up and formatted and installed XP. My laptop came
preinstalled with xp (pro) and I've always had an odd
issue with that.. I have the drive shared on it but can
only connect to it immediately after changing the computer
name, and if i restart again it won't connect. Thats not
the main issue though since before I could always connect
to this computer from the laptop and then transfer
whatever I needed to that way. I had sharing set up pretty
well before in win2k, had both drives shared as well as
the printer and created a few accounts and set permissions
for everything.. I've tried toset up everything in xp the
way I normally would but haven't had a single bit of luck,
I never get the logon box when I try getting into this
computer from the laptop (using '\\computer name or ip
address") it either says that it can't find it or doesn't
have the right permissions. In shares under computer
management it'll say that the IPC share has a user logged
in. I turned off simple file sharing and also tried some
things in security policy settings with no luck. This is
seriously bothering me because I'm a technician (not MCSE
yet..) and alot of people say I can fix anything.. so this
is rather annoying.. anyone have any suggestions? both
computers can ping each other, internet works, and
transferring files works over the network through file
sharing clients and after I change the computer name on
the laptop (connecting to the laptop from the desktop).
thanks

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