XP laptop and Me desktop won't talk

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I'm trying to network our new laptop and our two-year-old
desktop. I followed the "small office or home network"
wizard, including putting the XP cd into the desktop
(which runs Windows Me). Everything seems to have gone OK,
and I even get "packets" transferring both ways between
computers. But when I go to My Network Places on the
laptop, and I try to see the workgroup computers, I get a
message telling me "Mshome is not accessible. You may not
have permission to use this network ...etc etc". I've
followed all the troubleshooting tips and still drawn a
blank.

On the desktop I can see the desktop in My Network Places
but there's no sign of the laptop.

One thing I don't really understand is a "bridging" system
on the laptop that has been set up by the wizard, but I
suspect I wouldn't need to understand that in order to
solve this problem.

I can ping the desktop from the laptop, but not the laptop
from the desktop. It just times out with no response.

My brother advises me to bypass the wizard and try
manually to configure IP addresses. Should I go down this
road? can you help me through that process?

Is there some sort of accessibility setting I can
enable/disable? I'm already "administrator".

Any tips or solutions desperately welcome.
 
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.... is not accessible

Message: "....is not accessible. You may not have permission to use this
network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if
you have access permissions. Network path was not found."

Resolutions:
1) make sure no any firewall running.
2) make sure you have created the same workgroup, and the same username on
w2k/xp for logging on a remote computer.
3) check user's rights.
4) you may want to enable guest account on w2k/xp.
5) if you are using simple file sharing, you may try to disable it and
re-share the drive manually.
6) if it is mixed OS (win98, NT, ME and W2K/XP) network, enable NetBIOS over
TCP/IP.
7) make sure the Computer Browser service is started if all computers are
w2k/xp.
8) stop Computer Browser service on win9x, ME and NT if this is a mixed OS
network.
9) cache credential by using net use \\computername\share /user:username
command (it is better to have the username logon shared computer).
10) if you have tried enabling netbios over tcp/ip but doesn't work, you may
try to load netbeui (loading netbeui may slow your network).
11) Make sure the server service is running.
12) If you can see the share in Network Neighborhood but not access it, this
issue may be resolved by verifying that both the share permissions and the
NTFS partition permissions are correctly configured for individual user or
group access.



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