Windows XP network- HELP NEEDED

[Sparrow]

:confused: I have had a home network set up for nearly 3-4 months now between my computer and the family computer and its a basic pc to pc LAN. It works fine and I can access the internet but I am unable to share files over the network. Anyone got any suggestions and I can give detailed specs if asked for.

[csamuels]

http://www.onecomputerguy.com/networking/xp_network.htm

[Sparrow]

Thanks for link but my main problem is the computers refuse to access each other and I get a message saying to contact the administrator of the network

[slam]

describe your setup.
are both machines on the same workgroup
what OS, are your drives shared?

[cat5e]

Log to this page it has a lot of links to instructions to Windows Network Settings, and Sharing.

Link to: Windows Network - Installing & Sharing. (http://www.ezlan.net/Installing.html)

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[Sparrow]

I have Windows XP home and I think I had the internet security on family pc running at time. I will give the link a checkover

[Midknyte]

please look at the "best of networking" sticky.

do you have both systems in the same workgroup? are you using the same usernames and passwords? did you share any folders?