Hello,
I have trouble sharing a usb printer installed on an XP professional SP3 box (which I will refer to as HostPC) and accessing it from other XP pro sp3 computers on my home network.
My 3 PCs can access the internet through the adsl router, all wired and each assigned a static IP address and can ping each other, and can be viewed at the command prompt when typing the ‘net view’ command. The workgroup is visible from all PCs when I browse to Network Places but the problem is that from the other PCs I can’t access HostPC. The other PCs can get into each other’s system no problem.
On the other PCs the error message I get when I try to enter the HostPC thru the network places is: “\\HostPC is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator…..”
I am logged on as the “administrator” on every PC. The HostPC has File and Printer sharing enabled and doesn’t have any administrator password setup. Everything seems to be enabled for ease of sharing and communication between the PCs. Firewalls were disabled too but no success either.
Any ideas much appreciated.
Cheers.
