I am trying to network two PC's for a friend.
I did my research before starting the process of networking two computers
and have followed it to a T.
I have contacted the tech guys at Best Buy, Microsoft, Symantec/Norton, and
a software vendors tech support and none of them seems to be of help. They
all trhow me off to the next guy. So A post in here will hopefully be
fruitful to my needs. Here is what I have for a layout

Both PC's running WindowsXP PRO updated to SP2 on both.
SBCglobal DSL modem
two ethernet cards on host machine - one for DSL and the other for network
to the Linksys 5 port router in port 2.
One ethernet card on 2nd PC connected to Linksys 5 port router in port 3
(port one uplink NOT USED).
Used network Wizard on both Pc's starting with HOST machine with shared
internet in group OFFICE.
Host machine has Norton Internet Security 2004 with all updates. It has
personal firewall.
The second machine has no security other than windows firewall which is
disabled/off.
I have run MSANTISPYWARE BETA (latest version updated), NOTHING FOUND
Adware PRO Nothing found,
AVG PRO= Nothing found
Norton Internet Security 2004 defaults set on all options and ran a ful scan
several times = Found nothing.


I can get the ip address of both with ipconfig /all
which are:
Host PC = 192.168.1.100
2nd PC = 192.168.1.101
set to "automatically assigned"
I can ping 192.168.1.100 & 192.168.1.101 from both machines and get 128 TTL
4 timesn on both w/ no lost packets
I have all folders (yes ALL ) on each PC shared as well as the printer
connected to the HOST PC.
When I open MY NETWORK PLACES on desktop and then ADD NETWORK PLACE then
NEXT, then CHOOSE ANOTHER NETWORK PLACE, then next, then Internet or network
place and select BROWSE I am shown Entire network, and select Microsoft
Windows Network, then OFFICE, then the two PC's on the network "HOST" and
"a2dPC"., then I select HOST and then the okay button and I recieve this
eror message.
\\2ndPC may not have permissions to read on the host PC, see the
administrator of the HOST PC Well duh, thats me and I have no clue how to
correct this.