winxp not talking to a win2k base

[Virgilijus]

I have a win2k desktop as the primary and I have a winxp laptop. The win2k
desktop can see the laptop, but is NOT able to access any drive or folder, I
get and error: \\xx-laptop is not accessible. the network path was not
found, even though the windows network displays it. From the winxp laptop,
it can see itself ONLY and it sees it's shared drives and folders. Any
suggestions as to why they are refusing to talk???

Thanks

 

[Byte]

With the lack of info on how you are networked, like wireless, ethernet,
Linksys, Netgear, etc., a proper response can only be guesswork. Read
the below info which may be of some help for acess to folders and printer.
If your setup is a desktop and a laptop. My "wireless" router is NetGear.
Host should be the desktop PC and Guest the laptop.
Install the printer on the Host PC. Then using Control Panel>Network
Setup Wizard, enable File & Printer Sharing and make sure you check the
box to allow others to print to your printers. Next under Start>Settings>
Printers, select the printer, check the box to share the printer and assign
a name. Keep the name short, no blanks, something like Printer2.

You should now be able to add the printer to your Guest PCs using Start>
Control Panel>Printers & Faxes>Add Printer. Check the radio button
"A network printer ..." and then either browse for the printer or enter its
name (using \\PCName\PrinterName) and continue until finished. Ensure
that the firewall on your XP PC is set to allow access to remote printers.
Note: Make sure to include the slashes (\\) in printer name.
If using XP's native firewall ensure that File and Printer Sharing is
enabled and that the box with he same name is checked in the Firewall
exceptions list. The PCName can be found at:

Rightclick My Computer icon on desktop>Properties>Computer Name tab.
It may look something like: "Home-66djksjcpv". Don't type the quotes.
Click "Next" and it should install the printer on the Guest PC when
it finds it.

Note: You can follow the same procedure to get access to any drive, folder
and files from one PC to the other.

 

[Virgilijus]

The win2k base unit is connected to a Linksys WRT54G. The winxp notebook
talks wirelessly and/or via a cat-5 to the Linksys.

As I stated before, the win2k base does display the winxp notebook when I
have it search in the "my network places" / Entire Network / Microsoft
windows Network / and I click on the workgroup name, but when I double click