Hi all. Have been tearing my hair out for 3 months on this one! I have a Netgear MR314 router network with two pc’s (1 Windows ME, 1 Windows XP Pro) connected by cable and a laptop (Windows XP Home) by wireless. All have a printer connected; all 3 are members of same workgroup; No firewalls in use; all 3 ping all others; all 3 access the internet both ways. Laptop can access resources on both pc’s. pc’s can access resources on each other. My problem is when I try to access resources on the laptop from the pc with ME I am told: “You must supply a password to make this connection: Resource: \\LAPTOP\IPC$”. From the other pc I am told: "\\Laptop is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource”. Laptop is the name of my laptop. Can anyone help?
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Wireless network/xp home/password problem
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I'm having the exact same type of problem. Four computers (two XP pro, one XP home, one Win ME), all pingable, all have internet access and can have an intranet chat.
The XP home computer can access the other computers' files. However, the ME computer gives the weird \\XPHOME\IPC$ and asks for a password, and the XP pro computers say that they don't have permission to access the network resource.
I've tried just about everything. It's gotta be something to do with XP home's permissions, but I've tried going into safe mode, using CACLS, and bunches of other things. Someone has to have a solution for this!!
The XP home computer can access the other computers' files. However, the ME computer gives the weird \\XPHOME\IPC$ and asks for a password, and the XP pro computers say that they don't have permission to access the network resource.
I've tried just about everything. It's gotta be something to do with XP home's permissions, but I've tried going into safe mode, using CACLS, and bunches of other things. Someone has to have a solution for this!!
I forgot to mention that every computer can access the other computers' files. It's a perfectly running workgroup EXCEPT for the computers trying to access XP HOME. The XP Home can access them all without any trouble.
There are no firewalls, and nothing simple, I don't believe. I hope I'm wrong. Help!
There are no firewalls, and nothing simple, I don't believe. I hope I'm wrong. Help!
I had the same problem between a WinXP system wired to a Linksys router/wireless access point (BEFW11S4) and Win98 computer on a wireless USB adapter. I finally have things working and I swear it was because I changed the computer name (on the XP system) to something with fewer letters (7 worked). Played with DNS at same time but I have restored all DNS settings and everything is still working. Haven't tried renaming computer to see if I can reproduce the error.
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