Can't Access Device on LAN

Thats fine if you don't want to assist any more but don't say " Since you
apparently don't want to follow any of the advice that would give you a
completely working network"
I have just spent 6 hours going through all of your instructions including
automatic login which made no nense why I needed that.
Thanks for your time but don't say I didn't follow your advice.
Also you made no mention of Hans-Georg's troubleshooter so I still have no
idea what that is.


"Malke" wrote:

Ron wrote:

What I meant was passwords did not match and user name did not match but
they all had ADMIN authority.

It doesn't matter whether their user accounts are Computer Administrators.
They need to match and they need to exist on the machine hosting the shared
resources.

I turned off firewall completely on the problem XP machine.
Now I can access the machine.

This means that in addition to the possible problem with the user accounts,
your firewall is misconfigured and/or you are inadvertently running two
firewalls on that machine.

But when I try to add its printer to a laptop, I can now see the printer
but
when I try to add, I get message 'Windows cannot connect to printer.
Access Denied'.

Already answered.

I moved the printer to shared docs but it did not help.

As expected.

Please either go through the detailed troubleshooting I already gave you or
take the time to go through Hans-Georg's troubleshooter. The alternative is
to have a competent local computer tech come on-site and do the things
listed in my troubleshooter for you.

I really don't have anything to add to what I've already told you. Since you
apparently don't want to follow any of the advice that would give you a
completely working network, EOT for me.

Malke
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