XP Networking -- 2 PC's -- linksys router

[Guest]

Ok, I have a notebook PC (XP home) and a desktop PC (XP pro) that I am trying
to network. I am using the liksys WRT54G router with speedbooster. I have
no trouble connecting both PC's to the net through the router connected to my
DSL line. However, I cannot get the machines to show up in My Network
Places. I have ran the Network Wizard on both. They have different names
and are in the same workgroup. I am the administator on both machines and
both have the guest account on. The router correctly issues IP addresses to
both machines, but they never acknowledge each other.

I have followed every online set of networking instructions I can find and I
am losing my mind. Does this sound familiar to anyone?

Thank you,

 

[Fred Marshall]

Do both have only TCP/IP and not NetBEUI and not IPX?

 

[Hans-Georg Michna]

Ok, I have a notebook PC (XP home) and a desktop PC (XP pro) that I am trying
to network. I am using the liksys WRT54G router with speedbooster. I have
no trouble connecting both PC's to the net through the router connected to my
DSL line. However, I cannot get the machines to show up in My Network
Places. I have ran the Network Wizard on both. They have different names
and are in the same workgroup. I am the administator on both machines and
both have the guest account on. The router correctly issues IP addresses to
both machines, but they never acknowledge each other.

I have followed every online set of networking instructions I can find and I
am losing my mind. Does this sound familiar to anyone?

Nick,

please use http://www.michna.com/kb/wxnet.htm to solve this
problem.

If the selected solutions on the web page do not solve your
problem, please reply here and copy the selections line below
the form, above the three buttons into your reply.

Hans-Georg

 

[John R Weiss]

Ok, I have a notebook PC (XP home) and a desktop PC (XP pro) that I am trying
to network. I am using the liksys WRT54G router with speedbooster. I have
no trouble connecting both PC's to the net through the router connected to my
DSL line. However, I cannot get the machines to show up in My Network
Places. I have ran the Network Wizard on both. They have different names
and are in the same workgroup. I am the administator on both machines and
both have the guest account on. The router correctly issues IP addresses to
both machines, but they never acknowledge each other.

I have followed every online set of networking instructions I can find and I
am losing my mind. Does this sound familiar to anyone?

Yep! The "universal antidote" is to install the NETBEUI protocol on both
machines. You may be able to flail around with other fixes, but NETBEUI should
be the easiest after you've "tried everything."

Find NETBEUI on the XP install CD in the \VALUEADD\MSFT\NET\NETBEUI folder.
It's the same for both versions, and the Win2K version (same) works, too.

 

[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

Ok, I have a notebook PC (XP home) and a desktop PC (XP pro) that I am trying
to network. I am using the liksys WRT54G router with speedbooster. I have
no trouble connecting both PC's to the net through the router connected to my
DSL line. However, I cannot get the machines to show up in My Network
Places. I have ran the Network Wizard on both. They have different names
and are in the same workgroup. I am the administator on both machines and
both have the guest account on. The router correctly issues IP addresses to
both machines, but they never acknowledge each other.

I have followed every online set of networking instructions I can find and I
am losing my mind. Does this sound familiar to anyone?

Thank you,

1. If the computers run the original or SP1 versions of Windows XP,
disable XP's built-in Internet Connection Firewall on local area
network connections -- it's for use only on a direct modem connection
to the Internet. If they run SP2, enable the exception for file and
printer sharing in the Windows Firewall. Disable and un-install all
other firewall programs while troubleshooting. When un-installing a
firewall program, use the un-install procedure provided by the
manufacturer . Don't use Control Panel | Add or Remove Programs,
which might not completely un-install it.

For more information, see:

Windows XP Internet Connection Firewall
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/xp/ic_firewall.htm

2. Use only one protocol for File and Printer Sharing. If the network
needs more than one protocol, unbind File and Printer Sharing from all
but one of them. Details here:

Windows XP Network Protocols
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/xp/network_protocols.htm

3. Make sure that NetBIOS over TCP/IP is enabled on all computers.
Details here:

Enable NetBIOS Over TCP/IP (NetBT)
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/troubleshoot/netbt.htm

4. Run "ipconfig /all" on XP and look at the "Node Type" at the
beginning of the output. If it says "Peer-to-Peer" (which should
actually be "Point-to-Point") that's the problem. It means that the
computer only uses a WINS server, which isn't available on a
peer-to-peer network, for NetBIOS name resolution.

If that's the case, run the registry editor, open this key:

HLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Netbt\Parameters

and delete these values if they're present:

NodeType
DhcpNodeType

Reboot, then try network access again.

If that doesn't fix it, open that registry key again, create a DWORD
value called "NodeType", and set it to 1 for "Broadcast" or 4 for
"Mixed".

For details, see these Microsoft Knowledge Base articles:

Default Node Type for Microsoft Clients
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;160177

TCP/IP and NBT Configuration Parameters for Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314053
--
Best Wishes,
Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

Please post any reply as a follow-up message in the news group
for everyone to see. I'm sorry, but I don't answer questions
addressed directly to me in E-mail or news groups.

Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Program
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com

 

[Guest]

The problem was with a 3rd party firewall. Dell installs Norton Internet
Security. On my PC it was running in the background and not listed in the
progam registry. When I disabled it using msconfig, the network responded ok.

Thanks for the help..

 

[don.bass]

If you want to keep Norton installed, there is a tab in the config
option for Home networking. List the IP addresses or your machines
here and it will work fine.

 

[Hans-Georg Michna]

The problem was with a 3rd party firewall. Dell installs Norton Internet
Security. On my PC it was running in the background and not listed in the
progam registry. When I disabled it using msconfig, the network responded ok.

Thanks for the help.

Nick,

you're welcome. An old, well-known problem. That's why I pointed
at it before even trying any further troubleshooting.

Hans-Georg