Gateway Laptop MK6453 Trouble Sharing Folders

I've been trying to put my GW laptop on a LAN between the garage and the house. I know it's there. The house PC gets a message that it doesn't have permission to reach the laptop. I tried using Network Wizard, but the best I can do is get the house PC to see printers and the fax. I tried using properties on the C-drive of the laptop by using the Sharing item. That doesn't seem to work. I'd like to see the whole C-drive from the house, or possibly even some portion of it. How do I do this?

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Progress. I guess the freezing temps in my garage clouded my vision. I found the My Network Places in the Start menu. I hooked up the PC from the garage here in the den. Both computers can "see" one another, but the house PC has no permission to use the laptop. I used Network Wizard only on the laptop, but never saw a way to share the C-drive or any folders. Attempts to sign on to the laptop from the den PC produce something like "no permission--contact admin". When I try from the laptop, the den PC displays a login.

OK, so now I've used Help to get to a shared file help.
1. Open Computer Mgmt Local--did that
2. Click Shares in System Tools Tree--did that
3. Click on Action menu and select New Share File--sorry, no such thing.
Action only gives two choices but not that.

What's wrong here?

 

Solved. I spent 90 minutes in chat mode with the GW tech. We went off on a wild goose chase thinking User did not have admin capability. Ruling that out, we traced the problem back to trying to figure out why the Sharing Tab or the folder Properties did not show anything about "Share This Folder". It does, more or less, but you have to go off the tab by noting a sentence under the Network sharing and security section. That last sentence says at the end, "...want to share files without running the wizard, click here." That opens the golden door, another dialog. On it, it starts the next steps to complete the task. Note the "Just enable file sharing" choice. I'll let interested parties complete that short trail. Very oddly, once you leave this second dialog, the first one (Network sharing and security) changes to what one might expect from XP Pro. In fact, it becomes the default for other attempts on folders to share them. When it gets down to it, just forget about the wizard. Cheers.

 

One other comment. My machine is an MX6453, and not an MK6453. I suspect XP Media Central is used fairly widely with many notebooks by GW.