Thanks for the replies. Solved my own problem I think. Seems Vista computer
has McAfee AV installed. After a little searching I found it has a network
firewall. Disabled the firewall and now XP machines can access files on the
Vista machine.

"Gis Bun" wrote:

> I have a similar problem. Do you have a password on your account(s) in the
> Vista PC. Seems that to connect to Vista, you need to have a password for the
> account on the PC you're connecting to. Probably something in the group
> policies.
>
> Ignore any third part stuff. Save yourself some money on something that can
> be solved.
>
> "electricman" wrote:
>
> > I have 3 computers on a wired network with a linksys router. Two are XP and
> > the other is Vista Home Premium. All computers can see each other. The XP
> > machines can access each others shared files. The Vista machine can access
> > the shared files on the XP machines. However, clicking the Vista machine icon
> > on either of the XP machines results in this message: "\\Home is not
> > accessible. You might not have permission to use this network rescource.
> > Contact the administrator of this service to find out if y ou have access
> > permission. The network path was not found"
> > (Home is the name of the Vista computer) Any help with this issue is
> > appreciated.
> > thanks
> >