A small home network of 3 XP computers on a ADSL router.
Want to file and printer share amongst them.

All 3 PC's can see each other and show in View Workgroup Computers.
One of the 3 computers however will not permit it's files or the attached
printer to be shared.
That PC can access files on the other 2 PC's but when they try to access
it's files an error message about permissions etc. & contact network
administrator occurs.

All 3 PC's are ok on web page access.

Any ideas?

TIA

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A small home network of 3 XP computers on a ADSL router.
Want to file and printer share amongst them.

All 3 PC's can see each other and show in View Workgroup Computers.
One of the 3 computers however will not permit it's files or the attached
printer to be shared.
That PC can access files on the other 2 PC's but when they try to access
it's files an error message about permissions etc. & contact network
administrator occurs.

All 3 PC's are ok on web page access.

Any ideas?

TIA



have you set each computer up in the others Trusted settings.

what security software are you running.

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A small home network of 3 XP computers on a ADSL router.
Want to file and printer share amongst them.

All 3 PC's can see each other and show in View Workgroup Computers.
One of the 3 computers however will not permit it's files or the attached
printer to be shared.
That PC can access files on the other 2 PC's but when they try to access
it's files an error message about permissions etc. & contact network
administrator occurs.

All 3 PC's are ok on web page access.

Any ideas?

TIA



have you set each computer up in the others Trusted settings.

what security software are you running.


have you set each computer up in the others Trusted settings.
err no - never needed to do before.

Security software is XP firewall and free Avast anti virus.

Thanks.

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A small home network of 3 XP computers on a ADSL router.
Want to file and printer share amongst them.

All 3 PC's can see each other and show in View Workgroup Computers.
One of the 3 computers however will not permit it's files or the
attached
printer to be shared.
That PC can access files on the other 2 PC's but when they try to access
it's files an error message about permissions etc. & contact network
administrator occurs.

All 3 PC's are ok on web page access.

Any ideas?

TIA



have you set each computer up in the others Trusted settings.

what security software are you running.


have you set each computer up in the others Trusted settings.
err no - never needed to do before.

Security software is XP firewall and free Avast anti virus.

Thanks.


within Windows Firewall settings (Exceptions tab) check that file & printer
sharing is ticked.

I am not sure about Avast but if you search through its settings can you see
anything that refers to Trusted............if there is a section you need to
install the ip addresses of the other 2 computers into each computers
settings. Comp A has B & C ip address, Comp B has A & C and Comp C has A &
B's.

don't forget a reboot cures 'it still does not work'.

dj