Cannot Access My Own Public Folder

[adrianmace]

Hey,

Me and my brother have recently both reinstalled windows vista home basic on our fairly new laptop computers, I went to access my brothers public folder by going to Network then \\ GAMES1-PC\Public (Already setting up no user account control, password sharing and public folder sharing enabled.) It wouldnt connect and asked if i wanted to diagnose the problem, I then tryed to access my OWN public folder by going to the public folder on the side and it accessed fine but when I tryed going through Network \\ GAMES2-PC\Public It wouldnt connect and asked if i wanted to diagnose.

My brothers computer has been doing the same thing and we really dont want to reinstall.

Thanks in advance
RaZoR

 

[johngalt]

Can you see the other PC in each computer's Network and Sharing Center?

 

[adrianmace]

Can you see the other PC in each computer's Network and Sharing Center?

yes and my friend seemed to fix it, apparantly what happened was when i had norton 2007 on my computer it wasnt allowing access and when i uninstalled it I forgot to change the setting back before hand, I loaded norton 360 on and fixed the problem using that

thanks
razor

 

[johngalt]

Glad you found the answer - I was going to suggest firewall settings next, but needed to see that particular answer first to determine whether to attack firewall settings or look elsewhere.