Help with Vista & XP networking

First time here so hello!
I have an XP Home SP2 PC, a Vista Home Premium laptop and an Orange Livebox
router. My network is all set up, I can see each computer from each other and
open my Vista laptop from my PC but not the XP PC from the laptop.

When I try i get this message

\\PC is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network
reource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have
access permissions.

Logon failure: the user has not been granted the requested logon type at
this computer

I read an article that said to change a setting in the local security
policy, however I believe that XP Home does not have this facility

PLEASE help as this is driving me nuts. Many thanks in anticipation of your
help

Leonard

On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:53:03 -0700, leonardsway
<leonardsway@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>First time here so hello!
>I have an XP Home SP2 PC, a Vista Home Premium laptop and an Orange Livebox
>router. My network is all set up, I can see each computer from each other and
>open my Vista laptop from my PC but not the XP PC from the laptop.
>
>When I try i get this message
>
>\\PC is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network
>reource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have
>access permissions.
>
>Logon failure: the user has not been granted the requested logon type at
>this computer
>
>I read an article that said to change a setting in the local security
>policy, however I believe that XP Home does not have this facility
>
>PLEASE help as this is driving me nuts. Many thanks in anticipation of your
>help
>
>Leonard

You're right: XP Home Edition doesn't have the facility for setting
local security policy. Here's how to get around that and fix the
problem:

1. Download and install the Windows 2003 Server Resource Kit Tools
from http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=4544 .

2. Click Start > All Programs > Windows Resource Kit Tools > Command
Shell.

3. Type these lines exactly as shown (they're case-sensitive) at the
command prompt:

net user guest /active:yes
ntrights +r SeNetworkLogonRight -u Guest
ntrights -r SeDenyNetworkLogonRight -u Guest
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