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Strange networking between XP ME

I have a home user, 2 machines, XP Home SP1 and WinME, the XP had a virus, removed with no major problem, then the LJ4L died, she replaced it with a newer LJ1320, she can print and everything else, but for some strange reasons, the ME can no longer see the XP shared files/printer, I can ping from ME to XP and XP to ME, zonealarm is both opened for both machines 192.68.0.1-192.168.0.250, I have also disabled both firewalls.

The XP can see shared files on the ME, just not the other way round, if I try to connect by network name \\AlexXP  from WinME, it just said resource not found.

So far I have removed NetBUEI, Windows Networking, File and printing on both machines and reinstalled them, same problem, the machine is cleaned (checked by Bitdefender, Avast and Panda, removed afterward), and they just have ZoneAlarm and AVG on them, and as said earlier, ZoneAlarm were first disabled and then shutdown with same result.

Anyone could suggest something to head for ?

Many thanks
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Is netbios enabled on the properties of tcp/ip on the XP machine?  Can you get to the other with Start | run \\ipaddress in which case maybe add an LMHOSTS and/or HOSTS entry for servername against the ip address.
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Thanks all, I see two key points here that might help, as I am not near the machines so I cant check but from memory from last week, NetBIOS were enabled and browser for both WKS/Server were enabled, but I need to double check it again on Thursday.

What foxed me is that the whole thing were working fine before, and these users never changes any settings without first asking for advice, so how the links broke is beyond me.