Network Help!!!

[Candace Sparks]

We have a peer to peer network with 1 Windows 2000 server and 4 XP Pro
workstations. We can ping by ip address and computer name, but cannot
connect through network places. Get the error message network path cannot
be found. We would like to map drives, but computers cannot be seen in my
network places, and we cannot connect by typing the name in the path box.

Thank you for your help in advance!

Candace

 

[Gordon]

We have a peer to peer network with 1 Windows 2000 server and 4 XP Pro
workstations. We can ping by ip address and computer name, but cannot
connect through network places. Get the error message network path cannot
be found. We would like to map drives, but computers cannot be seen in my
network places, and we cannot connect by typing the name in the path box.

Thank you for your help in advance!

Candace

have you set up shares on the XP machines?

 

[Candace Sparks]

Shares are setup. Username and password are the same on all computers.

 

[Malke]

Shares are setup. Username and password are the same on all
computers.

Check firewalls on the XP machines to make sure you've permitted lan
traffic. Make sure that Simple Sharing is disabled (Folder Options).
Presumably you've added the user accounts and passwords to the Win2k
box and shared the resources on it.

Here is an excellent network troubleshooter by MVP Hans-Georg Michna.
Take the time to go through it and it will usually pinpoint the problem
area(s):
http://winhlp.com/wxnet.htm

Malke