Networking XP with 2000

[Kevin]

I have an XP computer and a Windows 2000 computer and I
am trying to network them. I have Ethernet cards in both
computers with a Netgear Router. I am also hooked up to
a cable modem through this router. Both computers have
access to the modem; however, I cannot get these
computers to share printers and files. I did the network
set up wizzard on the XP computer and it made me a disk
to run on each computer in my network. When I ran the
program on the 2000 computer, it said that the program
does not work with 2000; it only works with 98 and ME.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. (e-mail address removed)

 

[Rob Elder, MVP-Networking]

The wizard is not necessary.

How are you getting IP? Do you have unique computer names? Is the
workgroup the same? Is any firewall software disabled?

 

[windom earl]

I have the same problem
all comps obtain an IP automatically
all have unique names
firewall is disabled
all are on the same workgroup

nobody on this board has a clue how to fix this other than upgrading to XP

 

[Doug Sherman [MVP]]

Maybe if you described the symptoms of this 'same problem' we could help.
On the XP machine go to Start/Run and enter
\\<IPaddressofWin2kmachine>. What happens?

Doug Sherman
MCSE Win2k/NT4.0, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP

 

[Jim Slager]

How are you getting IP? Do you have unique computer names? Is the
workgroup the same? Is any firewall software disabled?

Yes, and have you made the files and printers shared? And do you have
identical account names and passwords?

 

[Roland Hall]

:
: I have the same problem
: all comps obtain an IP automatically
: all have unique names
: firewall is disabled
: all are on the same workgroup
:
: nobody on this board has a clue how to fix this other than upgrading to XP

So, are you Kevin or Earl? (O:=

I network W2K Adv Server, XP Pro, XP Home and W2K Pro on a Belkin 54G
Wireless. The W2K Pro is wireless with a Cisco PCMCIA wireless NIC. It's a
laptop. It can be done.

Do the computers obtain their IP from the router? Is it running DHCP?
Do all computers have Microsoft Networking installed in Network settings?
Can you ping each computer from every other computer by IP, name?
Do you have duplicate accounts for each workstation in your peer-peer
network?
Have you set share and file system rights on each computer that has a share
that needs to be accessed remotely?

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[windom earl]

Belkin 54g router at win2k machine
belkin 54g pci network card on XP
Belkin 54g pcmcia on XP

they all have work group "workgroup"
they all have different unique names
they all have internet
only the Xp machines can see each other and exchange files but not the win2k
machine
file and print sharing is on on all of them
the hard drives are all set on share

all have microsoft networking enabled
all are obtaining IP's automatically
DHCP is on

\\<IPaddressofWin2kmachine>. What happens?------ doing this tells me
invalid drive share

 

[Jim Slager]

they all have work group "workgroup"
they all have different unique names
they all have internet
only the Xp machines can see each other and exchange files but not
the win2k machine
file and print sharing is on on all of them
the hard drives are all set on share

all have microsoft networking enabled
all are obtaining IP's automatically
DHCP is on

I didn't catch if you said that you have identical account names and
passwords on the different machines.

 

[windom earl]

I fixed it

"use NetBios setting from the DHCP server" must be enabled!!!!



thanks for all the help