Most connection issues generally are firewall related. If you disable the
McAfee firewall, I hope you have something protecting the network!

"electricman" wrote:

> 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
> > >