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by danlushington

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Hi there,

I've read many posts pertaining to my question but for the life of me I cannot think what the problem is. Here goes.

I have 2 laptops - for arguments sake called LAPA and LAPB, both running XP Pro but with different service packs, one has SP1 and one has SP3. I want to be able to share c and d drives on both laptops so that I can browse either laptop wirelessly from one to the other. For some reason I can browse LAPB from LAPA but not LAPA from LAPB, it gives an error message of \\LAPA is inaccessible, please check you have the correct permissions. I have tried using simple file sharing, giving full control to the Everyone group and it didnt work, same message. I tried unticking simple file sharing and creating shares of c and d drives and I got the same permissions error message. When I have simple file sharing enabled from time to time i get a username and password box appear, so I enter the username and password of the laptop Im trying to access and yes, you guessed it, the same permissions error message. The weird thing is I can ping both laptops from each other so I know they can see each other but I cannot figure out why the permissions error keeps appearing.

If someone could point me in the right direction I would be very grateful.

Many thanks

Dan

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by ivan.ms

If you have a HOSTS file with different computer name for the IP of the computer you are trying yo access you will get similar errors.

I mean, for instance, computer A has in its HOSTS file that computer B ip is one, but computer with that IP is not named B.

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