strange sharing problem

[geeks795]

I set up a wireless network for a customer yesterday... it was a strange one from the start. When I showed up the customer had tried to set up the network themselves so the problems were numerous but I thought I got them all solved before I left then the customer called today with a new problem. here is the setup... verizon dsl, one pc wired with xp home sp2, one wireless laptop with xp home sp2 both computers have nis 2005. linksys wrtg54g router... Originally neither pc could see eachother on the workgroup even though they were both on the same workgroup and had the c: and shared folders shared. They could however ping eachother. So I figured it was nis and that was part of the problem I set the networking feature of the firewall to accept range 192.168.1.100-192.168.1.200 and the desktop immediately could see the laptop in workgroup (not in network places) the desktop could now also ping the laptop. so I went digging and found that the nis was conflicting with the desktops windows firewall so I set both the pc and laptop to monitor only in windows firewall. That seemed to cure all the ills I was able to acess everything in network places C:'s and shared folders. When the customer called today neither the desktop or the laptop could access the c: of the other but could access the shared folder. When customer tries to access the c: it gives the dreaded "you may not have permission to access this resource" error. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated Thanks

[ThePoor]

when you shared the drive, did you give the users access rights to the shared folders?
right click shared drive/folder-->property->security->add users to give them access right to that folder..

the router has built in firewall, why bother with windows firewall, don't forget to turn on the wireless encryption..

[geeks795]

the pc's were both xp home so there really should not be any need for rights allocation... but thanks and the customer was extremely concerned with security but did let me turn off the firewall momentarily and it made no difference after things had worked the first time.. but as an update I talked to customer again and he re-explained the problem and it was completely different than the first time and it ends up he could infact access everything but had gotten the idea that he would be able to have access to files with in programs that he can not. Ie.. quicken and outlook. told him how to work around the problem and he is happy now. also thank you for reminding me to enable encryption, but I had done that as I always do and infact I had also enabled mac filtering as added protection