I had to do a "recovery" on my C drive on my laptop- it put everything on that drive back to the way it was when I bought the Sony machine. I did all the necessary updates and the computer is working OK. Before that, I was able to network my 2 machines (both XP). Now, I'm trying to setup a Home network and it won't let me in. I ran the Wizard, gave the right answers ("other"- I'm going thru a hub- ea machine is plugged into the router which goes to my cable modem)...named my machines, picked a Network name- just like before. In explorer I see the "microsoft windows network" then I see the name of my home network. When I click on it says it's not accessible. Before it would show me both the laptop and office desktop. Now I don't see the machines when I click the network name but it still tells me that I can't get in- it says maybe I don't have administrative access or another issue. I'm the only one that uses these machines so there're no other users listed.

I have tried turning off my Norton to see if that would help but it doesn't. This is suppossed to be simple and I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.

Any simple, easy, detailed directions would be very very appreciated.

Thanks and excuse the rambling- I'm getting frustrated with this process.

Users on a network authenticate as guest. A number of things could be going on. The guest account could be disabled. Guest may not have access to a share. And the list goes on.

You may want to read the following:

http://compnetworking.about.com/od/windows...filesharing.htm

http://www.practicallynetworked.com/suppor...oot_network.htm

I'm sure the solution is somewhere within this page, but you must be very patient and read it to the full to find what you need!

GL

Also, you'll be better off if you remove Norton from your system.