penciline wrote:

> I did have 2 firewalls running and I took one of them down. *I can now
> click on the XP box's Workgroup but I still do not see anything in the
> window. *I ran net view from the cmd on all machines and I see that the
> command completes successfully. *It shows me the list of shared folders.
> However I still don't know why the XP box doesn't see anything in the
> windows environment.
>
Finish doing what I already suggested.

If you have:

1. Created matching user accounts/passwords on all boxen
2. Turned off Simple File Sharing (XP Pro/MCE)
3. Configured firewalls correctly on all boxen

then you will be able to share files/printers successfully.

For XP and Windows 2003 Server, MVP Hans-Georg Michna has an excellent small
network troubleshooter. It may also be useful with Vista. Take the time to
go through it; that will usually pinpoint the problem area.

http://winhlp.com/wxnet.htm

Malke
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