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Home Network Problem

Feb 7, 2005 2:13AM PST

Hi, I am experiencing problems with my home network. I recently installed (after formating HDD) on one of my computers (comp C) Windowx XP Media Center (Windows XP Home Edition was previous operating system). Other two computer (comp A&B) are running on Widows XP Profesional.

My Problem:
I am not able to acess comp C neither from comp A nor com B. While the comp C is listed in my worgroup computers. When I click on comp C the error message comes up:

\\comp C is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrato of this server to find out if you have access permissions.

The network path was not found.

Please help me to figure this out.

Thanks for your time and all your help.

blaze79

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(NT) (NT) Set some folder to be shared.
Feb 7, 2005 9:23AM PST
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Sharing
Feb 11, 2005 12:16PM PST

I had couple of folders to be shared, but I was still not able to access the computer.

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Accessing Comp C from A or B
Feb 11, 2005 5:19PM PST

You may have set 1 or more folders on Comp C for sharing, but if you have a firewall running on Comp C, and didn't give an exception for Comp A and Comp B to actually access it, they won't.

Also, are you certain that the Workgroup name is the same on all 3 computers?