I have 3 computers I am trying to network and have been having difficulty
because the various screens of 2 of the machines act differently. To me
this is confusing efforts to resolve connection problems. So far I have
only been working with the first 2, but as you can see the versions are
slightly differant on each of the three machines. Can anyone explain the
differance in the three versions and advise if it is possible for me to get
them all the same.


Example: When I try to set up a folder or drive for sharing on the first
two and I place the cursor on the name of the folder or drive in windows
explorer and then right click and select sharing and security the two
resulting screens are differant. One has a permissions button and the other
does not. Since I am getting an error message stating that I lack
permissions to access a resource when I try to access the shared folders on
one from the other but have no problem going the other way, it stands to
reason the the permissions button might come into play. In the help section
when I click on about Windows, I see the following:


IBM Thinkpad T43P (Windows came with system)


Version 5.1(build 2600.xpsp.05031-1521:Service Pak 2)
Copyright@1981-2001 Micosoft Corporation

Compaq Evo N800c (windows came with system)

Version 5.1(Build 2600.xpsp_sp2_0dr.050301-1519:Service Pack 2)
Copyright@1981-2001 Micosoft Corporation


Gateway desktop (Windows installed as upgrade from home edition, which
upgraded from windows 98)

Version 5.1(Build 2600.xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158:service pACK 2)
Copyright@1981-2001 Micosoft Corporation

The hyperlinks are, of course, not included, but I cannot remove them in
this message as Edit>remove hyperlinks is grayed out.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Ken