Hi,

I am trying to help a friend with her XP Home network.  This was set
up by me originally, with a router, and two machines which are in the
same workgroup.  She is just sharing a printer on one machine (PC1),
and PC2 is the laptop.

Since someone else did some strange things with a networking setup
wizard to fix another issue, we have the following now happening:

1.  When she starts PC1, she is asked for a password, we just press
enter to continue with a blank password and it works fine.
2.  I can see both machines in network places, both machines are
pingable, but when I go to \\pc01 to reconnect the printer, I am given
a permission denied message. 

Anyone seen this before and knows what the issue may be?

Thanks.
Andrew.

On 1 Jan, 12:34, Andrew Hodgson  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to help a friend with her XP Home network.  This was set
> up by me originally, with a router, and two machines which are in the
> same workgroup.  She is just sharing a printer on one machine (PC1),
> and PC2 is the laptop.
>
> Since someone else did some strange things with a networking setup
> wizard to fix another issue, we have the following now happening:
>
> 1.  When she starts PC1, she is asked for a password, we just press
> enter to continue with a blank password and it works fine.
> 2.  I can see both machines in network places, both machines are
> pingable, but when I go to \\pc01 to reconnect the printer, I am given
> a permission denied message.
>
> Anyone seen this before and knows what the issue may be?
>
> Thanks.
> Andrew.

Open network connections, open the main PC connection (the one which
has the printer, PC1) and see if you still have - file & printer
sharing for microsoft networks under the general tab.

On Mon, 5 Jan 2009 01:27:43 -0800 (PST), Marge
 wrote:

>On 1 Jan, 12:34, Andrew Hodgson  wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am trying to help a friend with her XP Home network.  This was set
>> up by me originally, with a router, and two machines which are in the
>> same workgroup.  She is just sharing a printer on one machine (PC1),
>> and PC2 is the laptop.
>>
>> Since someone else did some strange things with a networking setup
>> wizard to fix another issue, we have the following now happening:
>>
>> 1.  When she starts PC1, she is asked for a password, we just press
>> enter to continue with a blank password and it works fine.
>> 2.  I can see both machines in network places, both machines are
>> pingable, but when I go to \\pc01 to reconnect the printer, I am given
>> a permission denied message.
>>
>> Anyone seen this before and knows what the issue may be?
>>
>> Thanks.
>> Andrew.
>
>Open network connections, open the main PC connection (the one which
>has the printer, PC1) and see if you still have - file & printer
>sharing for microsoft networks under the general tab.

It was checked, and I have got the password issue sorted now, so it is
not the same issue :(.

Thanks.
Andrew.

On 8 Jan, 21:32, Andrew Hodgson  wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Jan 2009 01:27:43 -0800 (PST), Marge
>
>
>
>
>
>  wrote:
> >On 1 Jan, 12:34, Andrew Hodgson  wrote:
> >> Hi,
>
> >> I am trying to help a friend with her XP Home network.  This was set
> >> up by me originally, with a router, and two machines which are in the
> >> same workgroup.  She is just sharing a printer on one machine (PC1),
> >> and PC2 is the laptop.
>
> >> Since someone else did some strange things with a networking setup
> >> wizard to fix another issue, we have the following now happening:
>
> >> 1.  When she starts PC1, she is asked for a password, we just press
> >> enter to continue with a blank password and it works fine.
> >> 2.  I can see both machines in network places, both machines are
> >> pingable, but when I go to \\pc01 to reconnect the printer, I am given
> >> a permission denied message.
>
> >> Anyone seen this before and knows what the issue may be?
>
> >> Thanks.
> >> Andrew.
>
> >Open network connections, open the main PC connection (the one which
> >has the printer, PC1) and see if you still have - file & printer
> >sharing for microsoft networks under the general tab.
>
> It was checked, and I have got the password issue sorted now, so it is
> not the same issue :(.
>
> Thanks.
> Andrew.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Are you going to help others with the solution :o)