XP Pro networking problem

[Eltano]

<BR><BR>Hi, I hope that you can help me out with this nagging problem that I can't <BR>find the way to fix it. I have a home LAN with 4 pcs, running Win XP, all <BR>are up to date with the patches, Norton AV, TCP/IP and NetBios (I know, I <BR>know) but I have to try everything. Same workgroup and static IP address <BR>(same subnet mask as well). My two son's PC can talk and see each other, <BR>transfer and share files and folders, but they can not see my PC, I can see <BR>them but when I try to tranfers I can not ( I get a error message" error <BR>copying file or folder, make sure that the disk is not full or write <BR>protected,..." or I get the logon window where I need to put my username <BR>and password (I'm the administrator for my LAN), I look all over to find a <BR>solution but to no avail.<BR>I hope that you can help me out with my problem<BR><BR><BR>Best regards<BR><BR><BR>Eltano

[TheZinoMachine]

Eltano, The problems you are getting may due to the hardware you have in your computers. I recently set up an old box (pentium 1 166 Mhz) on my existing network and all I can do is get the internet. It is not completely capable of the things in which my other 2 rigs are able to due because of how obsolete it is. I am runnning it as a server machine, so I am not concerned about my other computers recognizing them. If this seems to be the problem, and these problems are an inconvenience, then you should think of upgrading.<BR><BR><BR>System Specz: <BR><BR>Koala case with 350w power supply w/10 fans + slight moding <BR>Epox 8rda+ mobo <BR>Sapphire Radeon 9100 @289.50/265.50 (250/200 stock) <BR>Seagate 40GB HDD, 7200rpm, 8.5ms seek time, + 2mb cache <BR>2 sticks of Geil pc 3200 256MB clocked at 2.5-3-3-11 <BR>AMD Athlon XP 1700+ JIUHB clocked at 2250+ GHz

[Eltano]

It has nothing to do with hardware. I already fixed, all the problems was software related. I have to setup the same users in all of my pcs within the network, with same rights and with passwords for every one of them. And for my hardware, I have P4 and Athlon pcs with Western Digital HDs running XP Pro with all the patches.<BR><BR>Thanks anyway and best regards<BR><BR>Eltano