Hello
Have you disabled the ICF (firewall) on the home machine.

Have you enabled Simple file sharing.
Start>Control Panel>Folder Options>View

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"Jacob Lerner" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:ADDB63E9-028A-4AC0-9C80-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hello
>
> I am trying to connect three computers through one network hub for file
sharing and the internet in a small home network. Two of the computers run
XP pro and are connected - file sharing works. All three computers work on
the internet.
>
> The problem. It seems as through i dont have 'permission' to connect and
file share with the home machine. All of the Settings on both machines are
obtain ip automatically - On both professional machines, the icon for the
home machine is there, but says the network path is unavailable.
>
> Please help!
>
> Thank you
>
> Jacob

Hell

I am trying to connect three computers through one network hub for file sharing and the internet in a small home network. Two of the computers run XP pro and are connected - file sharing works. All three computers work on the internet.

The problem. It seems as through i dont have 'permission' to connect and file share with the home machine. All of the Settings on both machines are obtain ip automatically - On both professional machines, the icon for the home machine is there, but says the network path is unavailable.

Please help

Thank yo

Jacob

In article <ADDB63E9-028A-4AC0-9C80-(E-Mail Removed)>, Jacob
Lerner <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>Hello
>
>I am trying to connect three computers through one network hub for file sharing and the internet in a small home network. Two of the computers run XP pro and are connected - file sharing works. All three computers work on the internet.
>
>The problem. It seems as through i dont have 'permission' to connect and file share with the home machine. All of the Settings on both machines are obtain ip automatically - On both professional machines, the icon for the home machine is there, but says the network path is unavailable.
>
>Please help!
>
>Thank you
>
>Jacob

Run the Network Setup Wizard on the home machine to fully enable file
sharing. Tell it that the computer connects to the Internet through a
residential gateway.

If that doesn't fix the problem, try these steps:

1. Make sure that NetBIOS over TCP/IP is enabled:

a. Open the Network Connections folder.
b. Right click the local area network connection and click
Properties.
c. Double click Internet Protocol (TCP/IP).
d. Click Advanced.
e. Click WINS.
f. Click the Enable NetBIOS Over TCP/IP button.

2. Run "ipconfig /all" on XP and look at the "Node Type" at the
beginning of the output. If it says "Peer-to-Peer" (which should
actually be "Point-to-Point") that's the problem. It means that the
computer only uses a WINS server, which isn't available on a
peer-to-peer network for NetBIOS name resolution.

If that's the case, run the registry editor, open this key:

HLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Netbt\Parameters

and delete these values if they're present:

NodeType
DhcpNodeType

Reboot, then try network access again.

If that doesn't fix it, open that registry key again, create a DWORD
value called "NodeType", and set it to 1 for "Broadcast" or 4 for
"Mixed".

For details, see these Microsoft Knowledge Base articles:

Default Node Type for Microsoft Clients
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;160177

TCP/IP and NBT Configuration Parameters for Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;314053
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