I have win 7 7100 installed on my wireless laptop and windows xp home ed sp3 installed on my wired desktop. Both can access the home network I set up for my house and connect to the internet indicidually. I am using a linksys wrt160n router. The problem is I can not get them to talk to each other. They won't share filesor folders. Yes it is on other computers and they are set up using the same name for the network. I can go on the xp and user network places and see all the files and folders on the laptop. Plus I can go on workgroup computers and see the laptop, click on it and see all the drives and folders listed on the laptop. Then when clicking on the file or folder, then it hits me with "is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resourse. Contact theadministrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions." Well thats me. The win 7 laptop will not see the xp files and folders. Both have the same workgroup name.

Do you have password protected sharing on or off?

Check wether the share permissions and the NTFS permissions on the shares are properly configured.Right-click the folder, goto Properties.Open the Sharing tab and click on Advanced Sharing, here the "Share this folder" should be tagged on. Click on the Permissions button to view the current permissions. By default if you share something in Windows 7 using the quick way to share it will not allow the "everyone" group proper access.If you don't want to share with the "everyone" group, then make sure you access you laptop using the local username and password (I.E. systemname\username) and not the remote computers username. Add who-ever you want the sharing rights to extend to here and give them the proper rights. For example: 'Everyone' with 'Read' checked.OK out untill you hit the Properties window and goto the Security tab, make sure that the same user of group you assigned permissions on the share to also has access source. Note that the Sharing permissions dictate the maximum amount of permissions you can effectively grant here. A user that has just Read permissions on the Sharing level cannot write even if you assign it to him here. The Sharing Permissions can be seen as the first filter, NTFS permissions can ofcourse restrict the amount of access the user has to the actual source on the disk.Also: This whole story does assume that you have File-Sharing enabled and that you have usernames and password on both ends. (Although the latter is not needed if you're sharing with the 'Everyone' group).For the Windows XP machine, check wether sharing is enabled, firewall is off or the proper exceptions are allowed etc. Can the Windows 7 machine ping the XP machine?

Tobarr, are you still having an issue?