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XP share suddenly unavailable

I have a small Workgroup setup with 3 computers. A windowsXP PC with 3 shares on it, and 2 other VistaBiz laptop PCs that access those shares.  This week one of the remote PCs stopped being able to access any of the shares on the MAIN PC.  The response from a Net USe command is System Error 64, response from trying to \\MAINPC in explorer is 0x80004005.  I cannot find anything that changed but something did.  The 3rd PC can still access all 3 shares on the MAIN PC.  I have checked basic stuff on the 2nd PC:
-It can ping the MAIN PC using IP address and host name
-Turned off Firewalls on all PCs
-Disabled wireless adapter
-The IPs are all assigned with DHCP, but have not changed in over a year
-did a DNS cache flush on both PCs
-did a netsh int ip reset on both the main PC and the 2nd PC
-I setup a new user on the 2nd PC and tried to connect while logged onto that profile
-Both PCs were scanned for viruses and came up clean

All PCs can still use the web and Internet.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.  thanks
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check add/remove programs amd see if any updates have been installed recently
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If they have a logon password, what you can also try is go to start run cmd, net use Z: \\pc name\folder /user:username password and push enter it could just be that the pc want authentifacation.
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Thanks for the suggestions.  Last MS updates were installed in mid November.  And adding the username and password to the net use command still gets me a system error 64.  I even tried declaring the computer name in the "/user:pcname\username password" with the same results.  Any other ideas?
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