HOME NETWORKING - ONLY TWO OF THE COMPUTERS CAN ACCESS EACH OTHER

I am having a problem in sharing folders for my home network.
Please give me some help. Thank you.


The table below is the descriptions of my home network:
COMPUTERS COMPUTER NAMES FILE SYSTEM OS WORKGROUP NAME IP SUBNET MASK
1 HERMAN NTFS XP PRO WORKGROUP 192.168.0.1 255.255.255.0
2 TANYA FAT XP HOME WORKGROUP 192.168.0.2 255.255.255.0
3 JANICE FAT XP PRO WORKGROUP 192.168.0.3 255.255.255.0


The ICS is working fine where HERMAN is the computer directly connected to
the internet.
All 3 computers are using simple file sharing.
HERMAN can view and access all shared folders and drives from any computer
on the home network.
TANYA and JANICE can only view and access the shared folders and drives from
TANYA and JANICE, not HERMAN's.

Can please tell me how to share folders from HERMAN, so that everyone on the
network can view and access them?

Looking forward to your reply, Thank You.

On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 02:57:36 +1000, "herman_lhm" <herman_lhm@hotmail.com> wrote:

>I am having a problem in sharing folders for my home network.
>Please give me some help. Thank you.
>
>
>The table below is the descriptions of my home network:
> COMPUTERS COMPUTER NAMES FILE SYSTEM OS WORKGROUP NAME IP SUBNET MASK
> 1 HERMAN NTFS XP PRO WORKGROUP 192.168.0.1 255.255.255.0
> 2 TANYA FAT XP HOME WORKGROUP 192.168.0.2 255.255.255.0
> 3 JANICE FAT XP PRO WORKGROUP 192.168.0.3 255.255.255.0
>
>
>The ICS is working fine where HERMAN is the computer directly connected to
>the internet.
>All 3 computers are using simple file sharing.
>HERMAN can view and access all shared folders and drives from any computer
>on the home network.
>TANYA and JANICE can only view and access the shared folders and drives from
>TANYA and JANICE, not HERMAN's.
>
>Can please tell me how to share folders from HERMAN, so that everyone on the
>network can view and access them?
>
>Looking forward to your reply, Thank You.

Herman,

For XP Home, OR for XP Pro with Simple File Sharing enabled, make sure that the
Guest account is enabled (Start - Run - "lusrmgr.msc"), on each computer.

Do any of the computers have a software firewall (ICF or third party)? If so,
you need to configure them for file sharing, by opening ports TCP 139, 445 and
UDP 137, 138, 445, and / or by identifying the other computers as present in the
Local (Trusted) zone. Firewall configurations are a very common cause of
(network) browser, and file sharing, problems.

Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.