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Sharing my Resources on the Network

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I am sitting on an XP Machine. I have shared my folders and printer but no one can get any access. They get the message: Access Denied. What do I do? My friends are able to ping my PC and get a reply. For me I can see all they have shared including their printers. Please help.

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by icelemon

for the fastest solution, apply the following

1] open windows explorer
2] click on
3] open
4] get into tab
5] enable

tell me if you can solve your issue with this, else a more complicated method is coming along the way ha.

Cyril.

by jschein

SGT Schultz is correct

In order for anyone to access either a shared folder, printer or any other device on your machine, you must give them access.

Giving access is quite easy, either goto your users in your control panel or comp. management console and add all of their usernames and passwords they use.

On the other hand, you can just enable guest account and allow guest account access to that printer. **** This step is not recommended due to the lowest security level on a computer ****

by tksolway

You must have a matching user account, so if you login with

John
1234

he needs to login with the same. Not only that, but I have found that the XP firewall sometimes gets in the way, you can disable this in the properites page of your network connnection accessed by:

Right click - My Network Places - properties, right click - LAN connection - Properties, Advanced Tab

also, if you are running Norton Firewall, you must disable it.

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