I have successfully connected two XP systems together using a cat5 cross-over cable, and both computers acknowledge that a connection exists, however neither can find the other computer on the same workgroup. I have dont the network setup wizard but to no avail. What must i do to view the other system??? Please help......

On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 22:26:06 -0800, "Trenton"
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>I have successfully connected two XP systems together using a cat5 cross-over cable, and both computers acknowledge that a connection exists, however neither can find the other computer on the same workgroup. I have dont the network setup wizard but to no avail. What must i do to view the other system??? Please help......

Trenton,

Are either system running ICF? You gotta disable ICF on any LAN
connection with another system - ICF is only for protection on direct
connections to the internet..

Any other firewalls? Most third party firewalls can't be effectively
disabled, so you gotta either un install them, or configure them to
trust the other computer.

If that doesn't help, reply with ipconfig output from each system.
Start - Run - "ipconfig /all >c:\ipconfig.txt" - open c:\ipconfig.txt
in Notepad - copy and paste into your next post.

Cheers,