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Unable to connect to a network

by srikk Feb 8, 2008 2:35PM PST

Hi all,
I recently bought a Dell laptop Model Inspiron 1520 with 120 GB HDD & 2 GB RAM with Windows Vista Home Premium OS.With my laptop I rcently tried to form a small network at my office with 2 other computers( One is office laptop & another one is Desktop, both have Windows XP Pro) for sharing the Internet connection.I created a workgroup with 3 systems connected.Desktop is the host computer , from this with the help of 8 Port Mini Hub I created the LAN with required cables.
Now the problem is- in the host computer & also office laptop which are running with XP , when I open workgroup computers all 3 systems icons are displayed but I am not able to access My personal laptop . The message is saying like this-"The system is not acessible, You are not authorised to view this computer, contact system administrator."so that I am not able to share the files between them.Office Laptop is accessible from host computer.And also in my laptop I am able to view the other 2 systems icons but can not access those two systems.Same error message is coming here also.Are there any OS compatibility issue is there?
Also I am not able to browse the Internet on my personal Laptop while the LAN showing that it is connected to Internet.I have to change any settings for my Personal laptop to get sharing & Internet? Do I need to configure TCP/IP settings for my laptop?How can I get that?For office laptop already TCP/IP settings are there, so we are able to view Internet on that.
I will be very thankful if anybody can help me out.

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Looks fine as to TCPIP
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Feb 9, 2008 1:08AM PST

But I didn't read where you created your account on the XP that you log in as on the Vista machine. Example. You log is as shrek on the vista machine and also as shrek on the xp machine.

Bob

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User Accounts
by srikk Feb 9, 2008 2:19AM PST

Thanks bob,
I think u r asking abt the user accounts information. In both systems I am logging in as administrator only.The desktop only has 1 user account- that is as administrator & and in my personal laptop it has 2 user accounts and I logged in with administrator rights when connected to the office network.

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Now try it with an "account"
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Feb 9, 2008 2:29AM PST

As you can imagine, the administrator account should not work. I'm going to stop here.

Bob

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