invisible pcs

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Aaron

Two XP Pro systems connected directly with crossover
cable, i've ran the network wizard on both systems. The
one system who doesn't have a direct internet connection
can succesfuly connect via the other, but when it comes
to sharing documents I have to use 3rd party networking
software. In the network places tab on one machine, the
other computer is visible but I apparently dont have
permissions. The other machine doesn't even see the
other one. The HDDs are both NTFS with the exception of
one partition which is FAT32 but only contains recovery
files. Both have the XP firewall enabled and norton
firewalls but i had the same problems when i disabled
them, where am I going wrong?

Thanks in advance
 
to test it, disable all firewall. can you ping each other? if yes, can you
ping the remote computer by name? if yes, what do you get when using net
view \\remotecomputername?

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