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[Selectra]

Setting up a network and having great difficulties with XP home. There are two PCs and a laptop. Laptop and PC 1 have XP Pro, PC 2 has Home. All three computers can be seen in my workgroup.XP home can access both the pro machines but they can only access eachother, not the Home one. I just get the message access denied.

A few things to point out:

- I can only access the home PC (PC2) through RUN \\pcname\shared folder from either of the pro ones
- I can print to the printer connected pc PC2 from either pro machine (although "guest" is shown in the print queue)
- All three firewalls are disabled
- All three are in the same workgroup
- I can ping any of them from each other

I've had this problem with similar network and XP home ages ago but haven't a clue how I got round it.

[Dave]

Here's an article from Microsoft about your problem:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/learnmore/russel_02april08.mspx

Basically it says to map a drive to the Home PC. Have you tried this?
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