File sharing

I have a few XP sp2 machines which have the firewall enabled, and file and printer sharing is set to be allowed to pass through the firewall, but it doesn't work (can't run administrative share). Most machines here this configuration works fine. Any suggestions as to why this doesn't work on a select few machines? Thanks.
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