Try running the "Network Setup Wizard" on the XP machines. When you install
a printer on an XP machine to be shared with a 98' or Me machine, you need
to tell it that during installation. Mine asked me. (Epson printer) You'll
have to look in your printer settings.

Hope this helps
Jack Brooks

> Hello all!
>
> The facts:
>
> Network with 1 XP Home, 1 with XP Pro and 1 with Win98.
> The XP Home is where most of the action takes place. Most specifically, it
> has an HP Laserjet 1000 attached to it that the others need to print to.
> Workgroup name is the same on all three, all have different IP addresses
> assigned (192.168.0.xxx). All appropriate drives are shared, as in the
> printer with full read/write permissions. All are firewalled with
Zonealarm,
> all have the full network IP range in the trusted zone. For the XP
machines,
> they both have SP2 installed (the problem seems not related to that - the
> timing is wrong). Windows firewall is off on both.
>
> The XP Pro machine can print to the Laserjet. When attempting to connect
to
> any other resource on the XP Home machine, this error pops up: \\Computer
is
> not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network
resource.
> Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access
> permissions.  Access is denied. Cannot get the Win98 computer to even find
> the printer (although you can see the computer in network neighborhood):
> \\Computer not available: Access denied. Ping works all the way around. It
> seems that although the workgroup is available, the whole computer is
> denying access.
>
> I am stumped. Does anyone have any idea how I might go about getting this
> computer to share?
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> Will Stephenson
> Acadia Technologies Inc.
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