On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:02:02 -0700, Poisoned Pigeon wrote:

I have retried all that thanks, with the firewall completely disabled, and I
still cannot access the shared folders and printer from another computer.

Whenever I try accessing the files I get the message"You might not have
permission to use this network resource... Logon failu the user has not
been granted the requested logon type at this computer." The printer has the
message "Access denied, unable to connect"

Reading the articles posted says that XP Home edition uses guest account for
file sharing. I have checked that the guest account is able to access the
shared folders and the printer on the Desktop.

Any other suggestions please?

You could fill in the form at http://winhlp.com/wxnet.htm and
read the results. This particular error is extensively covered
there.

Hans-Georg