Cannot share printer in home network

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System with printers - WinXP Home SP2 (Dell)

Client 1 - WinXP Home laptop
Client 2 - WinVista Home premiuim (64bit)

All are part of MSHOME workgroup

Al are running a verison of Symantec protection. I have alowed SMB & file
sharing in the firewalls.

All connect through Linksys wireless router and can access the internet.

When I invoke My Network Places on the system with printers, I see the 2
laptops but not the Dell system.
When I try to add a network printer on either client by \\dell\printershare
it immediately comes back with cannot find printer or server.

On client 1 - My network Places -> show workgroup computer; it says not
authorized
On client 2 - the network shows only the vista laptop.

On the Dell, I had to clean up the adapter services, I removed Netware and
Services advertising Protocol.

What am I missing so I can share 2 printers from the base DEll system with
the laptops?

THX
 
Fixed the problem. It was a corrupt version of Norton. Upgrade to current
and it now works.
 
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