Win XP Pro networking prob

[kent]

Help. Tired of troubleshooting.

I have 2 XP Pro machines connected to a 4 port hub.
1 is 192.168.0.3 and the other is 192.168.0.5 with subnet of 255.255.255.0
and no gateway.

This is the alternate manual as the primary is dhcp.
03 shows it shares in my network places, 05 does not.
03 shows the tequilla workgroup with itself in it.
05 sends an error msg "Workgroup is not accessible. You may not have
permission .... "
03 cannot ping 05, but 05 can ping 03.
I have disabled the firewall on 05 and still it doesn't help. Netbios
setting set to default in tcp/ip advanced config.
IP filtering, not enabled, but set to allow all.
I don't usually keep these 2 networked together.

I just had this working a few days ago and several weeks ago and it took me
forever to beg Windoze to work as I was trying to transfer some files.
Something is changing everytime and I do not know what it is and am too
tired and have lost too much time troubleshooting.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I've got ZA Pro and Norton AV and am
(almost) reasonably confident I'm not
infected. But who knows?

Please help. Remove nospamme to send email. Thanks, Kent.

 

[Alan White]

Do your firewalls block LAN traffic? You need to enable it to pass through.
I assume both workgroups are EXACT same name and each computer has a
distinct name.

 

[kent]

Hell, I even disabled the firewall and it still didn't work.
And yes, the workgroup on both is Tequilla. I tripled checked my spelling.

When it didn't work I would do the networking wizard, choose Tequilla as my
Workgroup name.
The wizard would say that I have to run the wizard on any non XP computers
and I always choose don't make a networking disk or run it from CD, but skip
and complete the wizard since both computers are running XP Pro.
After I make these changes and sometimes reboot, the workgroup on the PC
gets reset or changed to MSHOME
or WORKGROUP.

I figure somewhere there's a setting that is causing this but I don't know.

TIA,
Kent