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by bennie3327

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I have a small four computer network at home. When I try to access my computer files through my network via one of the other computers - I get an error message "You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator to find out if you have access permissions. Access is denied." My computer is the Administrator and I have made all of the documents shared documents to the other computers.

Somehow I have managed to block file sharing to those computers from my main computer. All the other computers can share between each other and my computer can use any of their files. I worked through the various Windows XP file sharing help sessions to no avail. This morning I tried the Group Policy editor to see if that was restricting the file sharing. I also have Windows Defender and tried to work through their suggestions. Any suggestions to regaining access would be most helpful. Thanks.

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by thumbsup2

If they're not, you won't get access to the files.

Even in the same workgroup, you may need to create a login account on your computer for each one of the other machines, matching username and password from them.

by ---tk---

checked your firewalls? there should be an exception in there for file sharing.

by snuffy09

first off - Make sure the time is the same on all the computers

2nd, I would choose a username that all the computers would use to connect to eachother.

Example: I would add "bob" to computer 1,2,3, and 4. and and make him an admin. then when you map a drive to \\computer\C$ connect as "\\computer\bob" doing this has saved me lots of headaches.

Try this with your firewalls off, then try turing it on and allow file/print sharing if it works.

also make sure file/print sharing is enabled on your LAN properties.

by tintoman

in the previous answers and Thumbs is right as usual except that you MUST have a user account on each machine that you want to access in workgroup, for example if cedric wants to access shared files on pc A B and C then Cedric needs a user account with the SAME credentials on each of those computers.
Also check your internet security software and make sure that your network is granted full trust

by bennie3327

Thanks for the input. I will work on these issues tonight.

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