I have a Windows XP Pro SP2 machine here, connected to three others on a basic network via an ADSL router.
I'm trying to create a shared folder on this machine and access it from the others, and from this one too. It's to be running some accounting software that expects to be able to see \\computername\foldername\
from each machine it runs on.
None of the other PCs can access \\computername\foldername\
- but even more oddly - neither can 'computername' itself! Each throws the "No permission, check with your administrator" message. They don't even work with \\192.168.1.3\foldername\
The PCs *are* connected to the network - they can all access the same NAS drive and they can all see out to the internet.
"Simple filesharing" is enabled, and I have created a new user on computername and tried creating an account there, but even then it cannot be accessed locally. "File and printer sharing" is enabled as a Windows Firewall exception and there's no other firewall or security software installed save for Avast antivirus (which has no firewall component).
Does anyone have any clues what might stop this from working?
Browsing Network Neighbourhood doesn't show 'computername' as an option when looking from the other PCs if that gives any clues? (Possibly unrelated, when trying to use Remote Desktop between two of the other computers, I had to use the IP address rather than the hostname, though *nothing* has changed (it hasn't even been rebooted until today when the problems came to a head) on the router for 2 years so I'm sure it's not blocking something)
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