Networking XP Home with Professional

[Guest]

I have 3 computers all linked through a hub, 1 is running Home edition and
the other 2 are running Professional. At first no-one could access the
Workgroup as they didn't have permission. Like this 1 computer could access
everything but no one else could. Now this has gone and no computer can see
another computer. Has anyone had any experience with cross version Networking
and can anyone help me to get it working. (The end goal is to share the
internet from one computer to the other two). Thanks for any help you can
provide.

 

[jonny]

Have you enabled Netbios over TCP/IP ??
without it the pc.s wont see each other-
You will find it in Network places / Network connections/properties
In the Box showing which items your network uses, Click twice the heading
Internet protocol TCP/IP then click advanced.
Click the tab WINS and make sure Netbios over TCP/IP is enabled.

jonny

 

[Guest]

Turns out my Firewall was blocking all LAN connections, so that problem is
solved, now I just need 2 find out how to share the internet. My computer
connects to the internet through a USB cable modem, and I want the other
computers to get the internet through me, but nothing seems 2 work. Any
surgestions (tryed setting my computers IP address as the gateway as well as
linking my LAN Connection to the Cable Connection (In the connections options
I mean)).

 

[Hans-Georg Michna]

Turns out my Firewall was blocking all LAN connections, so that problem is
solved, now I just need 2 find out how to share the internet. My computer
connects to the internet through a USB cable modem, and I want the other
computers to get the internet through me, but nothing seems 2 work. Any
surgestions (tryed setting my computers IP address as the gateway as well as
linking my LAN Connection to the Cable Connection (In the connections options
I mean)).

Remove any bridges you may have between network connections.

Set the ICS clients to obtain their IP address and DNS
information automatically.

Enable ICS on the host that has the direct Internet connection.

That's the way it should work.

If you still have problems, check
http://www.michna.com/kb/wxnet.htm.

But you could do yourself a favor and buy a WAN/DSL/cable
router. This is something I have yet to see anybody regret,
particularly since these little boxes are cheap. If you want to
go that way, ask here again and include whether you run
peer-to-peer file sharing programs or Internet games, in which
case the very cheapest routers may not do. For just email and
web browsing even the cheapest ones seem to work reasonably
well.

Hans-Georg