I'm at wits-end trying to figure out why I can't make
this work.

I have a home system with WinXP Pro installed, set up as
a Workgroup machine. My laptop from work is configured as
a domain member, also with WinXP Pro. Both are configured
to obtain IP configuration via DHCP, and in my home are
on the same network segment. Both are configured with
WinXP internet firewall enabled, and locked down pretty
tight.

I've mucked around with WINS over TCP/IP, installed the
IPX protocol, tried all sorts of combinations of
different bindings, etc., and I can't see either of these
computers from the other one for computer browsing, or
file and printer sharing. However, I can connected via
Remote Desktop, and map drives and printers that way, and
everything works fine. So it looks like the Terminal
Services binding for sharing file and print services is
working.

Any help would be enormously appreciated!! When I "log
on" to my laptop at home, of course, the domain server
isn't available for validation, so XP just uses cached
credentials. The absence of the domain server isn't the
problem, is it?

Thanks for any advice, folks!

A bit more background on the systems:

* Both have Norton Antivirus installed
* Both have WinXP firewall enabled
* I've modified the "NodeType" optional paramenter in the registry to be
"Broadcast" for the home system, and "Mixed" for the laptop, which needs to
be able to resolve names both by peer-to-peer broadcast and contact to a
WINS server

Haven't tried with NAV and firewall off (I'm not behind a hardware
firewall/switch). I also haven't tried disconnecting from my DSL modem and
doing a static config of the IP stack. I'll try both of those and post an
update.

On Sun, 4 Apr 2004 11:45:31 -0700, "Dave Waller" <*email_address_deleted*>
wrote:

>I'm at wits-end trying to figure out why I can't make
>this work.
>
>I have a home system with WinXP Pro installed, set up as
>a Workgroup machine. My laptop from work is configured as
>a domain member, also with WinXP Pro. Both are configured
>to obtain IP configuration via DHCP, and in my home are
>on the same network segment. Both are configured with
>WinXP internet firewall enabled, and locked down pretty
>tight.
>
>I've mucked around with WINS over TCP/IP, installed the
>IPX protocol, tried all sorts of combinations of
>different bindings, etc., and I can't see either of these
>computers from the other one for computer browsing, or
>file and printer sharing. However, I can connected via
>Remote Desktop, and map drives and printers that way, and
>everything works fine. So it looks like the Terminal
>Services binding for sharing file and print services is
>working.
>
>Any help would be enormously appreciated!! When I "log
>on" to my laptop at home, of course, the domain server
>isn't available for validation, so XP just uses cached
>credentials. The absence of the domain server isn't the
>problem, is it?
>
>Thanks for any advice, folks!

Dave,

You said you're using a DSL modem, but you're not behind a hardware firewall /
switch. Where is the modem connected? How do the home system and the laptop
connect?

Please provide ipconfig information for each computer.
Start - Run - "ipconfig /all >c:\ipconfig.txt" - Open c:\ipconfig.txt in
Notepad, copy and paste into your next post.

From each computer:
1) Ping the other by name.
2) Ping the other by ip address.
3) Ping itself by name.
4) Ping itself by ip address.
5) Ping 127.0.0.1.
Report success / failure of each of 10 pings.

And please don't contribute to the spread of email address mining viruses.
Learn to munge your email address properly, to keep yourself a bit safer when
posting to open forums. Protect yourself and the rest of the internet - never
post your address unmunged.
http://www.mailmsg.com/SPAM_munging.htm

Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.