Re: Help with home network needed

["Jeff Gaines" <jgaines_newsid@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 16/06/2008 in message <8Rq5k.188556$zc6.110076@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> SS wrote:

> Ive just set up my home PC using XP and my laptop using Vista on a wired 
> network and set it up as per these instructions:
>
> http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1165037
>
> Ive set up the sharing on the folders i want to share on both the laptop 
> and the PC and all are visible on the PC and laptop however when i click 
> on a folder is says:
>
> \\\john\my Documents is not accesible. You might not have permission to 
> use this netowrk resources. Access is denied.
>
> I am the only user on the PC and laptop.
>
> any help appreciated

Are you using the same workgroup name, user name and password on each 
machine?

Do you have the problem "in both directions" - i.e. from the XP box to the 
Vista box and vice versa or is it just one machine with the problem?

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Jeff Gaines Damerham Hampshire UK
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
(Ken Olson, president Digital Equipment, 1977)