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Chaoticknight16

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I have a home network with several computers. My computer can see and access the shared drives on any of the other computers Windows XP home and Windows 2000 Pro

the other computers can see me, but access is denied when they try to open up my computer to view the icons. There error is something along the lines of: unable to access, login failure.

I'm running XP Pro(simple file sharing) I also have zone alarm pro and avast anti-virus, which i think i have configured correctly; however, even if i shut them down I get the same errors.
 
I also have zone alarm pro and avast anti-virus, which i think i have configured correctly
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Its not. and if it is then your Windows XP Firewall is blocking access. i would bet on ZoneAlarm though
 
Let me ask, is the "Use simple file sharing" option turned off?

Are you trying to connect to the Windows XP computer with an account that has a blank password?
 
simply file sharing is enabled.

I can see and access shares on all other computers, but they cannot access me. when they try the error is:

\\XXXXX is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions.

Logon failure: the user has not been granted the requested logon type at this computer.





missing ghost: that was very interesting and i made notes for the future, but it didn't worked for me.
 
need more specifics on which users cannot access if every PC in in the same workgroup, did you setup file and security permissions for each user to the shares on your machine? <----this is probably most important because with out this setup porperly you get the errors that you are experiencing.
 
No users can access my computer from any other computer on the network. all are in the same work group. I've tried simple file share, and advanced. with advance the shares are open to everyone. No luck either way though.

call my computer pc1, another computer pc2. On pc2 I can view MSHOME and see all the computers including pc1, but when i try and open pc1 I get the error I posted above. If I try \\192.168.1.2 I still get the error posted above.
 
are the user accounts the same on both computers, such as usr1 on pc1, and you log in with usr1 on pc2 to connect into pc1. if the username and passwords are the same that may fix it.
 
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