We recently moved offices and I have just completed setting up our computers on our internal network. (All Windows XP machines) So far, all the computers can access the internet, and each other through the network. However, one computer (Windows XP Home) in our shipping dept. cannot be viewed on any other computer in our office. When mapping a drive, I can see the computer name ("Shipping") on thenetwork, but when I click it to access the shared folders inside, it either hangs up or I get a "You might not have permission to use this network resource. Access is denied." message.
So, I did the following to the computer in question to make sure it was open for sharing:
- I checked all the shared folders (even unsahred, then reshared a few) to make sure they were set up properly, with proper permissions
- allowed full control for everyone accessing shared folders
- enabled Enable NetBIOS over TCP/IP
- gave the computer a password (it was not password protected to begin with - I added one hoping it would prompt other computers for it when accessing it via the network - that did not work)
- double checked the user account for adminstrator permissions - it is a computer administrator account
- set restrictanonymous reg setting to 0
- ran Set Up Network Wizard and followed all instructions to allow file sharing and print server
- rebooted machine and router several times throughout the various steps above
At this point I have no idea what to do. Why can't I access this machine? This set up worked fine in our other building but for some reson it does not here. Nothing else has changed in our set up...just physical location. Any ideas as to how to get this working? Did I miss something obvious in the set up?
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