Resolved XP to Win 7 can't connect

Hello all, I have two desktops one with xp pro the other win 7 pro. The win 7 machine experienced a blue screen of death freeze. After the reboot I have the following problem.

I cant access the win 7 machine from the xp machine. I can access the xp machine from the win 7 machine.
I can however ping both ways.
When I try to map a drive to the win 7 machine from the xp machine it wont find the win 7 in the workgroup.
The shared printer in connected to the win 7 machine and is not accessible to the xp machine any more.

All machines are on the same home workgroup and are dynamical assigned ip address by my home router.

I have turned off the firewall on the win 7 machine and I can now map a drive to it from the xp machine, also the printer is now usable from the xp machine.

Unfortunately when I re-enable the firewall I loose all sharing, this is now ideal....

any suggestions as to how to get firewall up while maintaining connectivity?


Thanks in advance....

 

Yup "Not Ideal" but your links were, I checked every step and the issue still remained, however I changed the "WORKGROUP" name to "TEST" on both machines and all issues were resolved after a reboot, then I changed then back "WORKGROUP" and all is well. Must have missed something along the way the first time......Bur all good in the hood now.

another pint of Guinness for TonyT..

Thanks

Whacker.