Networking help please

Hi people, I'm having some major problems with home networking, and
can't see any way out.
I have a home 802.11g network, with two PCs (one running XP home, SP2;
and the other running XP pro SP1) and one laptop (running XP home,
SP2.)
These are networked through a belkin wireless router.

All three computers are configured for internet access and fiel
sharing, and all three can go online.

The problem comes with trying to file share - although I have enabled
file sharing of My documents on all the computers:

All three computers can access files on the PC running XP home; but
they can't access the PC running XP pro, or the Laptop, running XP
home. You can view all three computers on the workgroup, but when you
try to access them, the error:

"\\laptop is not accessible. you might not have permission to use this
network resource. contact the administrator of this server to find out
if you have access permissions.

Access is denied."

I can, however, ping all three computers, from cmd.

All three computers are running Zone Alarm firewall, but i get the same
error if I disable the firewall (both zone alarm, and the XP firewall)
on all the computers.

This seems to be a fairly common problem online, and i've tried all the
solutions that i've come across, including trying to access them
directly, through typing in \\laptop in the run command line.
I've also tried disabling simple file sharing on the XP pro PC;
checking access rights on the XP pro PC (these are set to all users,)
Running the netsh command line tool on all the computers running SP2
Running the ntrights command line tool on all the computers

I've also enabled guest accounts on all the computers, they all have
user accounts with the same user name and password as well

Please help, i've been trying to get this sorted out for days, and it's
really annoying me!

cheers,
Manpreet

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Relevant Pages

  • Re: WinXPHome cant access Win2KPro shares
    ... >without passwords, ... With XP Home and Pro on the LAN, ... password on all computers. ... For XP Home, OR for XP Pro with Simple File Sharing enabled, make sure ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.network_web)
  • Re: file sharing problem
    ... On the XP Pro computer, check to see if Simple File Sharing (Control Panel - ... With XP Pro, if SFS is disabled, check the Local Security Policy (Control Panel ... "lusrmgr.msc"), and has an identical, non-blank, password on all computers. ... For XP Home, OR for XP Pro with Simple File Sharing enabled, make sure that the ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.network_web)
  • Re: Peculiar permissions problem
    ... Did you disable the Guest account, properly, on all ... Sorry, I did mean to say XP Pro as well as SP2 :-) I can't check myself as the friend is a couple of hundred miles away, but I'm sure he would have disabled Guest. ... He knows a lot more about networking than I do and is at heart a Linux man and fanatical about security. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.network_web)
  • Re: Networking help please
    ... >All three computers are configured for internet access and fiel ... >they can't access the PC running XP pro, or the Laptop, running XP ... >network resource. ... >I've also tried disabling simple file sharing on the XP pro PC; ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.network_web)
  • Re: XP pro vs. home edition
    ... functions that are found only in XP Pro and are not included with XP ... sophisticated networking and/or security matters and these are often ... not relevant for home or very small office users. ... So if you have a home or office network with more than 5 computers ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
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