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computermaineack

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hey everyone,

i have been trying to network all of our XP machines together, and i have a very strange situation.

the computers are on the same workgroup, and they can each see eachother. i can see all the shared files on the computer i'm trying to network with this one, and i can print to the local printer on the other computer. however, the other computer cannot access my local printer or my shared files. i have remote access enabled and my firewall is disabled when i'm trying to network.


thanks for your help,
computermaineack
 
Are all of the machines running XP Pro?
Are you using a hub or a router?
are any of them wireless?
is the windows firewall disabled (it can kill home networks!)?
are you using simple file sharing (I would suggest not using simple file sharing on all the comps running XP Pro)?
are all of the computers on your network set to acquire IP address automatically, or have you set each computers IP address manually

I have networked with M$ Win XP before and know it can be a pain :)
Answer some of my questions and I will have you network running sweet by tomorrow!



Happy Networking,
Holiday.
 
Holiday said:
Are all of the machines running XP Pro?
Are you using a hub or a router?
are any of them wireless?
is the windows firewall disabled (it can kill home networks!)?
are you using simple file sharing (I would suggest not using simple file sharing on all the comps running XP Pro)?
are all of the computers on your network set to acquire IP address automatically, or have you set each computers IP address manually

I have networked with M$ Win XP before and know it can be a pain :)
Answer some of my questions and I will have you network running sweet by tomorrow!



Happy Networking,
Holiday.
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None of the computers are running XP Pro.
We have a wireless router.
All of them are wireless.
All firewalls on this computer (the one that can't be connected to) are disabled.
Simple fire sharing?
The computers are set to acquire IP's automatically, but that shouldn't affect my situation.


Remember, this computer can connect to another computer, but the other computer cannot connect to this computer.
 
O sorry, when you said "i have remote access enabled", I for some reason thought you said remote desktop :o , remote desktop only works on XP Pro.

Also Simple file sharing can only be disabled if you on an XP Pro machine.


OK so let me make sure I know what your problem is,
You have more than two computers on your network,
lets just say you have three computer on you LAN just to make this easier,
and the names of the computers are comp_1, comp_2, and comp_3.

comp_1 and comp_2 can see each other and access all shared resources on each of them, also comp_1 and comp_2 can see and and access all shared resources on comp_3.

But your problem is that comp_3 can see comp_1 and comp_2, but when your on comp_3 and open my network places/search for computers and click on either comp_1 or comp_2 it says access denied or something similar.

It the above accurate?
 
Sort of. I do have more than three comps on my network, but i'm only trying to network two of them together.

So, Comp_1 and Comp_2 can see each other. Comp_1 can access the shared files and printer on Comp_2. Comp_2 can see Comp_1's printer, but not connect to it. Comp_2 also cannot access Comp_1's shared files.
 
Try this for just for kicks and tell me what happens,

on comp_2: Click Start, click RUN, type \\comp_1 , and click OK.


(comp_1=that computers name or IP address)
 
Holiday said:
Try this for just for kicks and tell me what happens,

on comp_2: Click Start, click RUN, type \\comp_1 , and click OK.


(comp_1=that computers name or IP address)
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I've tried that with the "Remote Desktop Connection" Program from Windows to no avail.
 
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