Hi, I'm trying to establish a home network on my 2 machines, i have them connected via 4 port DSL router, 1 is W2k and the other is XP pro. Both computers can see each other in my network places. the XP machine can access the W2k machine but the W2k machine can not access the XP machine, i have looked through computing.net and the net for answers and can't find one that works. Both machines belong to the same workgroup and can ping each other, i can play networked games and all sharing facillities have been granted to each, have looked and tried certain local security policy settings but nothing seems to work in the user account that i'm using which has administrator rights, but when i logon as administrator i am able to access the XP machine, i don't know what i'm doing wrong or what settings need to be set. I hope some one can help me please as this driving me crazy. TIA Nilan M

Since you have only the two computers, did you set both file and share permissions on the XP machine to allow Full Access to Everyone?

Thanks for replying Jennifer I have given full access on the XP machine, but when i try to access the XP machine i get the message Computer name is not accessible Logon Failure: the user has not been granted the requested logon type at this computer. I'm sure i have done almost everything, i must be missing something some where, because if i logon using the admin account instead of the user account, i can access the XP machine. so settings between the 2 accounts have to differ only thing i don't know what. any other ideas? Nilan M

does the account exist on both computers with the same policy's?

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you, yes both computers have the same username and password for the workgroup account, only the machine names differ. As far as i can see both have policy's but i maybe missing something. As it works under a Administrator account, will the policy's be the same for an user account on the same machine. I think that it has to with something that is running on the user account which is not present in the Admin account, only thing i do not know what is. I could use the Admin account to access the files but it just annoys me that something doesn't work when it should do. Thanks for your reply Nilan M

I had the same problem with two WinXP Home systems that I had connected to an router. Although each system could "see" each other, only one machine could access the other. What appears to be the problem is a security setting on the PC that cannot be accessed. THE FIX: On the XP system, go to: Admin tools -> Local Security Policy -> Local Policies -> User Rights Assignment. First item should be ‘Access this computer from the network’ with a security setting that defines the type of users allowed to access the PC. (This may be currently blank, which could be the source of the problem) Double click item and ‘Add User or Group’. Click on ‘Advanced…’ button, then choose ‘Find Now’. Choose “Everyone” from the list, click ‘OK’ Apply the change. Now try to access shared files from the other PC. This fix worked for me, and I confirmed on the other XP system that 'Everyone' was listed as accepting logins, which it was. Hope this helps

Hi Nilan, for me it was a simple matter of disabling simple file sharing. Go to the control panel, then folder options, then click on the view tab, uncheck use simple file sharing. This seemed to have done the trick in my case. Hope this helps