I’m trying to copy files from my computer to my wife’s computer over a home network. Her computer lost its partition tables. We were able to recover the files from the hard drive, but couldn’t restore the partition tables, which meant we had to just wipe her drive and start over again. Now that all the applications are installed, I want to copy the data back, but I’m having a hard time.Both computers are in the same workgroup, both computers have common users. I thought that was all I needed, but the big issue is an error message I get when I try to find the computers within the workgroup (My Network Places/View Workgroup computers):“(workgroup name) is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions.The list of servers for this workgroup is not currently available.” I can issue the same command from my wife's computer and see both computers in the workgroup. BUT, I can't copy in either direction, and I have to believe it's because of the problem associated with the error message.Can anyone tell me why I get this message? ...and, of course, what I need to do about it? It’s my understanding once I can see both computers in the workgroup, the rest is just a matter of making the connection.Any help would be greatly appreciated.1 person needs an answerI do too

why not save your files onto a usb memory stick and put it into your wifes pcusb and download the files to a place of her choice?

The error "The list of servers... is not currently available" indicates a Master Browser election problem. Almost always this is due to a firewall on one of the machines in the subnet. One way to discover the problem machine is to do a "nbtstat" ping from each computer to every other computer. The computer that has a firewall will not respond. To do this, on each computer bring up a command prompt window (Start -> Run -> "cmd") then enter the command: nbtstat -a computer1Where "computer1" is replaced with the network name of another computer on your subnet. You can use an IP address instead of the name if you use a capital "-A" instead of the lowercase "-a". If the target computer allows this communication, it will respond with a few short status lines. It won't respond if blocked by a firewall."Internet firewalls can prevent browsing and file sharing" < http://support.microsoft.com/kb/298804 >HTH, JW