Home Network set-up issues

[Mirage]

I'm having issues setting up my home network.

I've turned off simple sharing, and have enabled two of my folders on this laptop to allow sharing (Full for everyone for now).

For some reason I'm unable to view these folders from the same laptop if I go to \\Veg-Laptop\. I can see them but when I click to view them I receive the following message:
\\Veg-Laptop\Veg Laptop Music is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administator of this server to find out if you have permissions.

I am also unable to view any of the other systems if I go into View network computers, even the laptop does not show.
The laptop is definately set-up correctly on my Workgroup.

I've changed HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa to 0.

I've set a password up for the Administrator log in, but this did not help.

My HTPC is connected to the workgroup fine, if I type \\Veg-Media from the HTPC itself I can go into the shared folders without issue, I can also see the HTPC when viewing network computers from the HTPC itself.

Both of these machines are running Windows XP Pro SP3. Both of these machines are on the same Wireless Network, I have no firewalls running and I can ping both machines from each other.

Is anyone able to provide any ideas? I've spent most the day on here/google trying to fix this but to no avail.

Cheers

 

[Mirage]

I just did a ipconfig /all and noticed NetBios is disabled, although in the properties for my wireless card this is set to enabled?

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

D:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>ipconfig /all

Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : Veg-Laptop
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

Ethernet adapter Wireless Network Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Networ
k Connection
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-1F-3C-2C-77-94
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.2
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
192.168.0.2
NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Disabled

 

[PistolPete]

You can try a couple of things.

Make sure the same username and password are set on both machines.
When you attempt to connect to the other machine it shouldn't then prompt you for credentials.

Can you connect via IP?? \\192.168.x.x? Can you access the admin shares? \\192.168.x.x\c$ etc?

 

[Mirage]

Username/Password are the same.

The biggest thing confusing me is this, here's a screenshot of the issue which is taken form the Laptop itself.


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[Mirage]

For future reference this is now fixed. Not sure how but the only two things I can think that I've done today regarding permissions/accounts etc are:

Re-enabled automatic login for Administrator on laptop
Turned ON Simple file sharing on laptop

Everywhere I've read says to turn this off, plus it's off on the HTPC so not quite sure whats going on here but nevermind .