OK this is a wierd one... I have two pc's connected via wireless router/switch. All is fine (internet/file & printer sharing etc) PC#1 has 2 XP user accounts and PC#2 has 3 user accounts, (all admin user accounts). One of the user accounts on PC#2 cannot access PC#1 at all (even though you can see it listed in network neigborhood and I can ping to it) It just says that 'you do not have the access rights to this pc, please contact your network administrator... blah blah' I set up various folders on PC#1 to be shared. The other two user accounts on PC#2 can access the other pc fine so I have the correct workgroup names set up etc. It's just this 1 user account that has a problem. How can it be possible for me to have restricted the rights to just 1 local XP user account on a LAN pc ?? ANY IDEA'S CAUSE I AM TOTALLY OUT OF ANSWERS!

Usernames must be equal on all machines. I'm guessing the third user is the acount with the issue? Add the third user account to the other machine and I think you'll be fine.

doesen't seem to be the answer, here's my set-up... PC#1 BILL (works fine) BOB (works fine) PC#2 GAMING (works fine) BILL (cannot access PC 1) BEN (works fine) So it seems accounts with totally unique names work. and it's actually the account with the same name that is the problem. It could be related to this... On PC#1 I previousley deleted the BILL account via XP account manager (administrative tools) as trying to delete it under control panel/users froze the screen. Two files could not be removed by windows in c:\docs & setts\bill\ So when I created a fresh new account called BILL the user files are now located in c:\docs & setts\'computername'.bill\ that may be nothing to do with it, but I may try just creating an account with a 'shortened' name or something. Sorry for garbling on... any more ideas ?

All sorted, I was wrong... set all user accounts and passwords the same on both pc's ... all working fine now. :-p