I have a Dell Dimension 8400 with a 1000GB external drive and an HP printer attached. Both the external drive and the printer are shared. I have been accessing the drive and printing via my laptop and my wireless Netgear router with no problems for months. My wife was on the desktop and I spent several hours cleaning over 180 pieces of spyware, Trojans, etc. from the desktop.

The problem now is that I can see the “My Book” drive attached to my desktop from my laptop but cannot access it getting the message that I might not have enough rights or the network path might have changed. My workgroup was the default of MSHOME and the laptop and desktop are both named, LAPTOP and DESKTOP respectively. I thought it might be an issue concerning the workgroup so I created another workgroup named FARRAR, added both to the workgroup, rebooted, and still have the same problem with not being able to print to my HP printer via the laptop or view the contents of the external drive via the laptop.

Both units are running XP Home SP2.

What might I do to resolve the problem?

Thanks,

Jeff Farrar