Small Home Network Problems

beer enigma

This is probably very simple, but its driving me crazy, so any help gratefully received....

I have three PC's & one laptop in the house, all using a Wireless connection via a Netopia Router. All connect to the router with no problems.

To set up the network, I used the Small Home Network setup option from networking - nothing strange with any of the setups, file & print sharing enabled etc. Three of the machines can see each other fine, but the fourth machine sees the other three, but doesn't let anyoen connect to it ?.

I've disabled WEP & firewall etc, but still no joy.

Only difference with the problem machine is that wireless connection is via a USB key & its running the original version of XP dating back to 2002. It's updated via MS update.

Any ideas ??

beer enigma

Just an update on this....I can connect via XP Remote connection without any problems.....throw any light on it ?


Anyone ???

dil999

When you say that the other PCs won't connect to it, What exactly do you mean.

Can they Ping it ?

beer enigma

Thanks for the reply

They can all ping it, all see it under Network Places in explorer, but when you try clicking on it, you get a message saying :

"\\Perseus is not available. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the Administrator of this server to see if you have access permissions. Access is Denied.

dil999

Andip wrote:

Thanks for the reply

They can all ping it, all see it under Network Places in explorer, but when you try clicking on it, you get a message saying :

"\\Perseus is not available. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the Administrator of this server to see if you have access permissions. Access is Denied.

is 'Perseus' your computer name.

On the offending PC. Try putting it into a different Workgroup. reboot and then put it back into the original workgroup.

beer enigma

Thanks - yep Perseus is the computer name.

I've tried as suggested, but still getting the same message.

andrew163

Make sure you're actually *sharing a folder*. I.e. on the offending computer, right-click a folder, click Sharing, and enable it. Simply having file sharing set up through network connections may not be enough. XP is moody like that.. sometimes you need to do it, sometimes you don't....

beer enigma

Thanks - that's done - in fact I shared the 'C' drive & its showing the hand symbol, just wont connect - it must be a permissions problem, but as both systems are running XP Pro, I cant see how

Cake Fiend

Andip wrote:

I shared the 'C' drive

Don't do this, make a dedicated share dir (like 'network temp' or whatever) and share that. Make sure it's shared to an account that has permission to access the machine from the network (Guest account is denied access by network by default IIRC).

beer enigma

Thanks - I only shared the 'C' to prove a point to myself !

Managed to sort this last night - at long last !! - for some reason it didn't like the computer name ! - changed it to a different name & it worked fine, changed it back to Perseus & no connection (checked spelling on all machines).

Anyhow, thanks to all who helped on this one

Andi