noob still haveing trouble with permissions on first home network

[bockchow]

i just built my 2nd computer and i wanted to share my dsl and have them connected together so i can share files and drives so i picked up a linksys router. i have it all set up andi can see both computers from both computers in my network places and i can connect to my new computer from my old one.but when i try to connect to my old computer from my new computer it says

\\compter_name not accesible
logon failure: the user has not been granted the requsted logon type at this computer

 

[skyking]

Operating systems?
It sounds like a win2k/xp computer complaining about a logon. The 2k/xp machine denying the connection needs a user and username added for the other computer.

 

[Waterskier1]

Do you have a firewall? Have you disabled WinXPs built in firewall?

 

[bockchow]

both computer win 2k
old one soon to be redhat but i want to figure this out first before i wipe the whole thing and none of it matters anyway

 

[bockchow]

i had zone alarm on the old one but i shut it down after i installed the router.

 

[bunker]

As was mentioned above, go into the Administrative tools on the old machine then get to users. Add the login name and password you use on the new computer as a user on the old one.

 

[bockchow]

well i found administative tools but where's the user part

 

[bockchow]

ok found user part add other computer still no dice. do i need to restart or something?

 

[bockchow]

ok i poked around a little bit found adminisrtative tools/local security policy/local policies/user rights assingment/access this computer from the network and added my other system since nothing was there, restarted and still got jack.

 

[bockchow]

ok i looked around in administartive tools for a while for anything that looked like it was related to permissions. also searched around on google and a couple other sites. this is probably a realy stupid thing but keep in mind i've never done this before. can anybody walk me thru this?

 

[bunker]

Start
Settings
Control Panel
Administrative Tools
Computer Management
Local Users and Groups
Users

Right Click (on the right side)
New User
User name: <user name used to log onto other computer>
Full name: doesn't matter
Description: doesn't matter
Password: <password that is used to log onto other computer>
Confirm password: <same as above>

Uncheck
Uncheck
Check
Uncheck

See if that helps.

 

[bockchow]

ya i did that. i had both computers with the same log-on name so i didn't know if that would cause a problem so i i made the new computer under a different log-on went thru the steps again and still nothing. as far as the uncheck, uncheck, check, uncheck part i don't see anything aut checking. is that a winxp or 98 thing? i'm useing 2K

 

[bockchow]

anybody got any more suggestions? it seems like it should be working to me. and it's weird that it'll work one way but not the other.