I've had this problem before. The only solution I found that worked was to
map a network drive from one to the other, but you have to specify the IP
address and the file or drive letter you want to access.
example \\192.168.1.28\My Documents)

Good luck
Allan


"Nunya" wrote in message
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>I have a host computer it is xp and three laptaps they all see each other
> but cannot connect to host
>
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