>>Run the Network Identification Wizard as noted below, and tell it you are a business user running a network without a domain. Give it the name of your WorkGroup when prompted,
>Ok., I did this and re-booted as per instructions
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>>and then add accounts to the other machines or server that can act as administrators on the local machine and users on the machine and also have permissions on the other machines. Right now, the user accounts are all relative to the other machines; you either need to grant local users rights on other machines or existing users on your network permission to log into your machine to inherit their rights.

>I am sorry, I don't understand this part. Please walk me thru this slowly. I just want the XP laptop to see the c$ of my server. I log onto the server as Administrator with a password
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Go to the Server. Add an account equivalent to the account that you logged into the laptop with, and then close the User Accounts applet. Open Computer Management, select Shared Folders, go to the C$ share, right click, and assign that new user the necessary rights to work in the C$ content.

I strongly (cannot say this too strongly) that YOU DO NOT ALLOW -ANY- NON-ADMINISTRATOR or off the subnet of the workgroup IAC, direct access to the hidden admin shares (C$, etc.) If you must share the root, create a distinct share of the root with a different name and assign users to that - open sharing of the admin shares is a direct invitation to hackers - (JRandomHacker: OOO, lookie, a bozo who didn't know that everybody has these admin shares; let's try some user names and passwords via the latest Windows Security flaw... oooh, I wanna bit-sort the entire data volume C$... and let's infect these other drives with BugBear and so goes the box!)

It's your system, I just wouldn't do things this way.