I have a small, in-home peer-to-peer network with 2 XP professional nodes and 1 XP home node. One of the XP pro nodes has 2 printers on it that are shared over the network by the other 2 systems. I have a Linksys wireless router that attaches by cable to the system with the printers and by wifi to the other 2 systems. It also has a cable modem attached to it so all 3 systems have access to the internet. Since this is my family, I have not tried to block access between systems. Everybody could see everybody else, and things were running fine until about 2 weeks ago. I needed to upgrade the C drive on the system with the printers, so I bought Norton Ghost 9.0, made an exact copy of the C drive, copied it onto a larger drive, put it into the system, and things came up and worked just like Norton said they would EXCEPT...the permissions between the systems on the net are all screwed up. The XP home system can't see anybody else and can't see the printers to print. The XP pro systems can mostly see each other and both can print. All three can still access the internet. No matter how I set the sharing flags and open up the security on all the systems, I can't get anything to change at all. Even logging in as the administrator doesn't change anything, and, of course this how I learned that XP home doesn't really have an administrator mode even though it looks like it does. I've been trying everything I can think of for 2 weeks now, and for my next step, I'm seriously considering the use of nitroglycerin. I would truly pay a lot for a tool that would give me easy access to all the permission and security details of these systems and bypass all the XP nonsense. Is there any hope of help out there? Can anyone point me in the right direction to find out how to fix these systems?
Much thanks in advance.
Mcklsn
Much thanks in advance.
Mcklsn