Otaku Punk
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I'm really confused as to whats going on so i thought i'd ask for a little help with my situation.
A couple of months ago i brought my PC home from uni as i usually do in holidays and connected to my home network via wireless. I always use a wireless connection at home and an ethernet connection at uni. Setting up the shared internet and networking all seemed to go fine, with both working perfectly as far as i could see. I was happily sharing the family printer and accessing the net.
The problems arised when the other two computers in my house tried to access my PC (one connected to the network wirelessly and the other via ethernet). My Shared folders don't appear in "network places" but my computer does appear in "view workgroup computers". Both PCs get an error message when they click on my computer in "view workgroup computers" that reads as follows:
"\\(my computer name) 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"
I've pinged my computer from one of the other PCs using both the local IP and my computers name, and found no packets dropped. I've tried disabling my firewall and unsharing/re-sharing the folders i want on the network but to no avail. As a last ditch attempt i even tried re-running the networking wizard with no success. What really puzzles me is that file sharing has worked perfectly fine in the past, and that i can access the other computers with no problems.
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated, i'm pulling my hair out!
A couple of months ago i brought my PC home from uni as i usually do in holidays and connected to my home network via wireless. I always use a wireless connection at home and an ethernet connection at uni. Setting up the shared internet and networking all seemed to go fine, with both working perfectly as far as i could see. I was happily sharing the family printer and accessing the net.
The problems arised when the other two computers in my house tried to access my PC (one connected to the network wirelessly and the other via ethernet). My Shared folders don't appear in "network places" but my computer does appear in "view workgroup computers". Both PCs get an error message when they click on my computer in "view workgroup computers" that reads as follows:
"\\(my computer name) 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"
I've pinged my computer from one of the other PCs using both the local IP and my computers name, and found no packets dropped. I've tried disabling my firewall and unsharing/re-sharing the folders i want on the network but to no avail. As a last ditch attempt i even tried re-running the networking wizard with no success. What really puzzles me is that file sharing has worked perfectly fine in the past, and that i can access the other computers with no problems.
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated, i'm pulling my hair out!