I recently formatted my desktop and have several directories shared on the network.

Before the format anyone could access these directories and copy what’s in them, but now it asks for my username and password.  I’ve got all the permissions and sharing access set up for read privileges for everyone, which is the same as before.

If I access from my TR then it lets me straight on as I have same user set up on here, which is why I’ve only just noticed.

Does anyone have any ideas how to just let anyone have access again?  I’ve tried everything I can think of…

Try enabling the ‘guest’ account with no password. Also, if XP firewall is on, check its exceptions list. Maybe you have to add tcp on ports 137 and 138, as well as udp on port 139.

Hope this helps.