network sharing

[Guest]

I have a Compaq Presario 2100 laptop running xp home and I have 3 other pcs on xp home on a linksys wired router
I can ping by name and by ip address. The laptop can access all pcs and view files on them. But the other 3 pcs can'
access the laptop. They can see the name but can't access. All are not firewalled and the laptop has folders being shared

 

[Guest]

by the way 2 weeks ago all was fine. But there was a problem pinging. The network did work while pinging was not right. Which leads me to believe that something i downloaded changed something and now is blocking access. Also I have a program called 3m post-it notes (office). and 2 weeks ago it wouldn't work. Thats when networking was fine. I went on vacation and came back and plugged my laptop in. Thats when my problem started. I reset the router and the dsl modem. Also I uninstalled norton internet security. And that fixed the post-it problem but not the networking one. I've tried a few things concerning the registry and ad and spyware.

----- Racsan wrote: -----

I have a Compaq Presario 2100 laptop running xp home and I have 3 other pcs on xp home on a linksys wired router.
I can ping by name and by ip address. The laptop can access all pcs and view files on them. But the other 3 pcs can't
access the laptop. They can see the name but can't access. All are not firewalled and the laptop has folders being shared.

 

[Guest]

another thought after tcp/ip version 6 was installed it caused a yellow flag (that will be my next project) in device manager when i uninstall it the flag goes away. Could that have caused my problem by leaving something there to block access.

 

[Guest]

Rascan

Were you able to figure out why you are unable to access the files? I am having similar issues. I am able to see the folders on both computers however when I try and access the files, nothing happens.

 

[Guest]

no did not figure it out yet