Are these XP HOME or PRO? Are they connected through NIC's and a cross-over cable? ARe these two machines the ONLY computers connected on the LAN? Which Service Pack are the XP's using? Especially with XP, have you disabled the firewall's on both machines?
Have you checked to make sure that "File and Printer Sharing" is enabled on both computers? (Open the Control Panel, double click on the "Network Connections" icon, RIGHT click on the "Local Area Connections" icon, choose 'Properties". Make sure that "File And Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks" is installed and CHECKED.
Now that they both have the ability to share, make sure that file sharing is enabled and you have the premissions to use it. On both machines, open "My Computer", RIGHT click on the C drive, choose "Sharing", then make sure that the folder is "shared" and give your user name full rights...For "Everyone" else, give them "read only" rights if that's what you want.
Once the computers have the ability to share files, then you can narrow down the security by re-enabling the firewalls and giving them "exceptions" if you choose to do so. (That's done on XP SP2 by opening the Firewall icon in the Control Panel, then click on the "Exceptions" tab.)
Hope this helps.
Grif
I've connected PC's together before but I'm having trouble with two laptops that have the XP operating system. I can seem one laptop on my workgroup list but when I try to connect I get "...not accessible" error.
How do I get the access permissions straightened out?
Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

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