I am the sole user of this computer and an administrator. It is running Windows XP Pro. I guess I will return to this problem at a future date, I have other greater problems at the moment. At least the Macintosh can be seen by the PC. :-) Thanks for your help! Valerie On 12/14/04 8:56 AM, "Dennis B. Swaney" <romad at cncnet.com> wrote: > At 7:05 AM -0600 12/14/04, Valerie Maples wrote: >> I am sorry; the history of this is not here/ Everything is already "shared" >> on the PC from the root directory up/ I have never heard the term >> permissions or seen a place for the other computers user name/ passwords on >> Windows and I am a fairly advanced user. >> > > What version of Windows? If it is NT/2000/XP, then you may have to be > logged in with Administrator privileges to change the User > permissions.