Have been checking various mcafee settings in both machines and managed to fix the problem by changing a Mcafee network IP address firewall setting on the vista machine - when I ran the netgear set up it appears to have set the 192.168.0.0 to 192.168.0.255 range as Public - changing this to Trusted seems to have solved the problem. The XP machine was already showing this range as trusted. Hope this helps anyone else with similar problem on mcafee. Haffy
I have 2 Dell desktops, a Dimesion9200 running Visa Home Premium SP1 and older  Dimension 8300 running XP Home SP3. I have had these successfully networked with a wired Voyager 240 modem & router. Both run Mcafee and I had set up shared folders on both PC's that could be accessed by the other. My modem/router has just died and I have just installed a Netwgear Wired Modem router. All seems well apart from the xp machine being unable to access the shared folders on the vista machine. When I view the network  in mcafee on the xp machine it says that the vista machine hasnt been invited to joing the managed network yet.  On the XP machine in my network places, when I click on the shared documents link that I used to use successfully I get the following message: "....is not accessible. You might not have permissions to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of the server to find out if you have access permissions. The network path was not found." The vista machine can open folders on the xp machine. Unsure as to how to overcome this. Will probably/hopefully be something simple....Advice on how to resolve would be greatly appreciated. thanks   Haffy  
Network Problem with 2 Dell's