How to grant access to another computer?

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Robin

I have one computer (of 3 on our home network) that can't be accessed by the
other 2 computers. When I try to do an explore, it shows the computer in
the list, but says '<computername> is not accessible - you may not have
permission to use this network resource contact the admin of this server to
find out if you have access permissions'. I have shared everything from the
C drive down to a number of the directories and subdirectories. What more
do I have to to do grant access? All 3 computers have XP. I did not have to
do anything special on the other ones to make this work. One thing - a
backup program that is running on another computer is actually backing up
files from the computer that can't be accessed, but I can't get to it in
'Explore'. Thanks!!!
 
Robin said:
I have one computer (of 3 on our home network) that can't be accessed by the
other 2 computers. When I try to do an explore, it shows the computer in
the list, but says '<computername> is not accessible - you may not have
permission to use this network resource contact the admin of this server to
find out if you have access permissions'. I have shared everything from the
C drive down to a number of the directories and subdirectories. What more
do I have to to do grant access? All 3 computers have XP. I did not have to
do anything special on the other ones to make this work. One thing - a
backup program that is running on another computer is actually backing up
files from the computer that can't be accessed, but I can't get to it in
'Explore'. Thanks!!!
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Hi

Possibly a ForceGuest issue...

WinXP in a workgroup setting defaults to authenticate all connections coming
from "the network" as the Guest User (only possible to change on WinXP Pro).

More about this here:
http://groups.google.com/[email protected]
 
Hi Robin

Did you ever get this problem sorted as I have exactly the same issue. The
response from Torgier only seemed to be for Win XP Pro PCs.

Regards

Dave
 
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