I'm simply trying to connect two machines via cross over ethernet. I can ping both of the machines from the respective sides and vice versa, but when I try and go into network neighborhood it gives me an error of "access denied" even when I'm clearly running under the admin account. I've tried opening shares on both machines to try the data swap but to no avail. One side pops up with an access denied message and the other can't even recognize any other machines on the same workgroup. Both of the machines are windows xp pro. Any help would be greatly appreciated!