Hello I'm having trouble with file sharing between my desktop and laptop on my network and I was wondering if anyone could find a way to fix this.
Both computers are running XP and I now have the same username/pw on both computers for permissions sake.
At the start of my problem, my laptop could access files on my desktop, but desktop couldn't access laptop. Then I noticed that although the full user names were the same (say john smith), the user names were referred to as john on desktop and john smith on laptop. I found the difference between the user name and the full user name in the Administration Tools -> Computer Management.
So I changed desktop to be john smith as well, and now desktop can access laptop but laptop cannot access desktop. It gives me the error message that says "the user has not been granted the requested logon type at this computer".
I checked the User Rights Assignment and I allow john smith to connect to the computer; and I tried removing the Guest user from "Deny Access to this Computer From the Network" but that didn't help and I heard it's a bad thing to do security-wise anyway.
My laptop is on the same network as my desktop, same workgroup and all, but the laptop is connected through a WAP while my desktop is connected by wire... if that makes any difference.
Any help on how I can make it so both my desktop and laptop can access each other would be great. Thanks

well, are these names (john smith) the computer names, because all computers on a network must have unique names.

another thing, make sure ICF is off, the internal firewall(though im sure it is).

hmm... both computers have to be logged on to access the network.

i think thats it.

Firewall is off, computers have different names, its the admin user names that I have the same, and both computers are logged on.

Change one of the admin accounts to a different name but still with admin rights.

You need accounts on both machines, one each for the other machine, but they do not have to be both CALLED admin.

One can be "John" who has admin rights and the other "Sam" with admin rights.

In some cases the Admin rights might be set to allow only one logon by the admin instead of multiple logon ons.

Check those settings as well.

HTH

Larry

I tried making two different admins.. didn't work.I couldn't find where you would make sure the computer allows multiple admin logons at the same time, so I just made sure that no other admin was logged on my desktop before trying to access it.

I think its very strange how it gives access one way but not the other when as far as I can tell my user rights assignments and permission settings are identical on each computer. Past people who had this problem had a virus that kept changing the user rights but it doesn't look like that's on my computer... user rights are fine and I have norton antivirus running... I'm clueless