Help -Home Networking- Win2k WinXP

[Guest]

I am trying to connect three computers to a home network with a crossover
network cable that hass worked before. I have a laptop running XP Home, and
Desktop with XP Pro, and a desktop with Win2k. I run the create new network
wizard on both the XP machines and they can share the internet connection but
not see each others files. Same thing on the XP home to Win2k machine. I
cannot come up with a combination of setting to allow any one of the
computers to see and of the others whether I have only 2 or all 3 hooked up.
The message I get is network path not found / no rights contact
administrator. The laptop has been able to connect to other computers this
way before and now I don't know.
(Also for some reason my laptop says I cannot access windows update because
it has been disabled by an Admin. I am the admin.) Thanks

 

[Robert L [MS-MVP]]

have you created the same username and password on all computers? these pages may help,
network path not found "Network path not found" in a domain network 2 "Network path not found." in a domain network 3 "Network path not found" in a workgroup network - error 53 ...
www.chicagotech.net/pathnotfound.htm



network errors "Network path not found" in a workgroup network - error 53 "Not accessible. You may not have permission to use this network resource" ...
www.chicagotech.net/neterrors.htm



Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
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I am trying to connect three computers to a home network with a crossover
network cable that hass worked before. I have a laptop running XP Home, and
Desktop with XP Pro, and a desktop with Win2k. I run the create new network
wizard on both the XP machines and they can share the internet connection but
not see each others files. Same thing on the XP home to Win2k machine. I
cannot come up with a combination of setting to allow any one of the
computers to see and of the others whether I have only 2 or all 3 hooked up.
The message I get is network path not found / no rights contact
administrator. The laptop has been able to connect to other computers this
way before and now I don't know.
(Also for some reason my laptop says I cannot access windows update because
it has been disabled by an Admin. I am the admin.) Thanks

 

[josepe]

Run under cmd the ipconfig to read the ip address, in any pc. Go to
other machine and make for example under cmd "ping 10.1.2.2" where
10.1.2.2 is the first machine ip. If found ip, you can try then:
net use k: \\ip_of_the_pc\shared resource (for example a folder name)