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I have two pc's both on XP Pro and two laptops, one on XP Pro one on Vista.
They are all on a home network with wired pc connections to my router and the
laptops are both wireless to the router. All the machines see the Internet
and all but the XP Pro laptop see each other on my home network. Windows and
Norton firewalls were turned off on the laptop and the network reconfigured
to no avail. The PC can ping the problem laptop and the problem laptop can
ping the pc. However the pc shows the laptop on the network but when clicked
it is not accessable. The laptop only shows itself on the network despite
reconfiguring. What would be my next step to get the problem laptop on my
home network?
TX - Jim.

Sounds like permission issue. You may want to create the same username with the same password on the laptop. Or this search result may help,

not accessibleTroubleshooting "... is not accessible" error step by step F1 - System error 51. If you can net view IP while net view \\hostname gives you "System error 51 ...
http://www.howtonetworking.com/Troub...essibalef1.htm


Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net
How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com
"James" <> wrote in message news:5EBE33EE-F174-4C36-BCCA-...
I have two pc's both on XP Pro and two laptops, one on XP Pro one on Vista.
They are all on a home network with wired pc connections to my router and the
laptops are both wireless to the router. All the machines see the Internet
and all but the XP Pro laptop see each other on my home network. Windows and
Norton firewalls were turned off on the laptop and the network reconfigured
to no avail. The PC can ping the problem laptop and the problem laptop can
ping the pc. However the pc shows the laptop on the network but when clicked
it is not accessable. The laptop only shows itself on the network despite
reconfiguring. What would be my next step to get the problem laptop on my
home network?
TX - Jim.