xp home networking group policy problem.

> greetings!
>
> i hope you guys can help me with this, since it seems to be no common
> problem.
> the thing is this: i have two pcs connect by a switch and the network is
> fine, meaning
> that both pcs are pingable, i can connect to the wan from eithe one and i
> can even
> access the shared files of one of them which, and here is the problem,
> alas
> is not
> working vice versa too.
>
> having the xp home edition, which isn't shipped with the neccesary
> administration
> tools i had to improvise and use some old win nt apps to try and find out
> what's
> actually wrong with the laptop, being the pc whose network resources
> cannot
> be
> accessed. with the tool musrmgr.exe finally i found out that you can
> actually specify
> the user groups whom you want to give access to the system via a network.
> since
> on my laptop i don't even have the administrator group added to this
> setting
> but on
> the other pc i have all the groups i'm using, i hence think that this is
> it.
> this is my
> problem.
>
> unfortunately the tool i used can only read the settings. so i'm left with
> no application
> whatsoever which could change this setting and let me use the network
> properly already.
>
> i really really hope you people can help me out with this.
>
> thank you in advance!
>
> lipsticks
>
>