XP Home Network Access Problem

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I've set up a network of 4 PC's at home. 3 running XP SP2 and an old laptop
running Windows ME. The 3 PC's running XP are also running Norton Antivirus
(SystemWorks 2004). My problem is that I can access one of the XP PC's and
the Laptop from any computer, but I can't access the other two XP PC's from
any other computer. I've set up and network a number of times using different
names and PC descriptions etc - same problem, which is an error message
saying Access Denied.....do not have permissions. I can't find where to view
or change permissions. I've checked the services and protocols and the
windows and Norton firewall settings, all look the same on all three XP PC's.
Any advice or suggestions would be welcome.
 
Just to save confusion, switch off the windows firewall from the control
panel. Dont just switch it off on the lan connection, totally switch it off.

Second, switch off the Norton firewall as sometimes the network browser can
be denied access to the network if it was installed before the network
browser was needed to e used.

I know you say that the settings are all the same, but try disabling them
first, just incase. This will at least prove if it has anything to do with
the firewalls as usually, norton causes problems with this.

If that does not solve the issue, make sure that there is a common username,
like Dan on all systems.

Next make sure you can ping the machines. First try to ping them by name
(ping computer1) from run on the start menu. If that works, all is good from
a network communications point of view. If it doesn't then make sure that
they have the same subnet mask and are in the same range of ip's. If you
want, use the 192.168.x.x range and use 255.255.255.0 for the subnet mask.

Tell us how you get on with that...
 
First check you can ping all machines fron the suspect computer. If you can
then, may be, they are not on the same workgroup. They must be on the same
LAN (192.168.x.x) and must be in the same workgroup, WORKGROUP or MSHOME or
a name of your choice. Also, the user name on each computer must be the
same or you can try mapping a drive under a user name that you know exists
on the machine where the drive you are trying to access exisits.

Raajah
 
Thanks for the suggestions. I shut down all firewalls (windows, norton and
the one on my router), still no joy. I've checked the workgroup and that's OK
(I've changed it to a new name on all PC's just to be certain). The IP
address is assigned by the router and all begin 192.168.2.X so that seems OK.
From articles in the knowledge database I've also checked the netbios and
TCP/IP settings, all seem to be what I should expect. I'm slightly concerned
I've messed around with this too much now, is there a way I can completely
reset everything to some kind of default settings and start over?

Ian
 
Try installing the IPX/XPX protocol in the "networking" adapter component for
each PC, especially the ME box.
Even though MS wrote the TCP/IP protocol for their OS platforms, for the
Win9x - ME versions - for some strange reason - visibility and connectivity
problems haunt workgroups in those Windows environments. Adding the IPX
protocol about 99% of the time cures everything.

Good luck!
 
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