Adding Win XP Home PC to existing network

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I bought a Compaq PC today with Win XP Home installed. I have an existing
home ethernet LAN consisting of 2 old Win 95 boxes, and a Win 2k box. I have
high speed Internet (Earthlink) and all PCs can access each other and the
internet with no problem.

I cannot get the new Win XP machine to communicate with any of the other PCs
on the network. It shows the Win 95 machines in Network Neighborhood (or
whatever it's now called), but when I click on them I get a message that I
don't have permission to access them. It doesn't even report thaty the Win 2k
machine exists. The Win 2k machine doesn't see the XP either, this after I
added a user with the name of the XP to the Win 2k. The ONLY thing that works
is that the Win 95 machines can access the XPs shared folders (and obviously
the Win 2Ks also).

One thing I noticed is that when I set up the peer-to-peer network I had to
enable the NETBEUI protocol to get all the PCs to talk to each other. I
cannot even find NETBUEI on the XP to enable. Could that be the problem (all
PCs also have TCP/IP enabled). The XP machine can communicate with the
internet just fine.

If anyone has any ideas I would appreciate hearing them. I was leery of
going with XP Home but was assured by someone a while back on one of these
Microsoft.com newsgroups that XP Home would work OK with a small network.

Thanks!

 

[Chuck]

I bought a Compaq PC today with Win XP Home installed. I have an existing
home ethernet LAN consisting of 2 old Win 95 boxes, and a Win 2k box. I have
high speed Internet (Earthlink) and all PCs can access each other and the
internet with no problem.

I cannot get the new Win XP machine to communicate with any of the other PCs
on the network. It shows the Win 95 machines in Network Neighborhood (or
whatever it's now called), but when I click on them I get a message that I
don't have permission to access them. It doesn't even report thaty the Win 2k
machine exists. The Win 2k machine doesn't see the XP either, this after I
added a user with the name of the XP to the Win 2k. The ONLY thing that works
is that the Win 95 machines can access the XPs shared folders (and obviously
the Win 2Ks also).

One thing I noticed is that when I set up the peer-to-peer network I had to
enable the NETBEUI protocol to get all the PCs to talk to each other. I
cannot even find NETBUEI on the XP to enable. Could that be the problem (all
PCs also have TCP/IP enabled). The XP machine can communicate with the
internet just fine.

If anyone has any ideas I would appreciate hearing them. I was leery of
going with XP Home but was assured by someone a while back on one of these
Microsoft.com newsgroups that XP Home would work OK with a small network.

Thanks!

Bill,

You do NOT need NETBEUI. NetBIOS Over TCP/IP has been the standard since
Windows 95.

Assuming that you do not have connectivity, name resolution, or firewall
problems, start with this article:
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/troubleshooting-network-neighborhood.html#Components>

And read about the browser on mixed Win 9x (95, 98, ME) / Win NT (NT, 2000, XP)
LANs.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/windows-9x-9598me-and-browser.html>

And about file sharing on mixed LANs.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/06/file-sharing-under-windows-xp.html#OlderOS>

 

[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

I bought a Compaq PC today with Win XP Home installed. I have an existing
home ethernet LAN consisting of 2 old Win 95 boxes, and a Win 2k box. I have
high speed Internet (Earthlink) and all PCs can access each other and the
internet with no problem.

I cannot get the new Win XP machine to communicate with any of the other PCs
on the network. It shows the Win 95 machines in Network Neighborhood (or
whatever it's now called), but when I click on them I get a message that I
don't have permission to access them. It doesn't even report thaty the Win 2k
machine exists. The Win 2k machine doesn't see the XP either, this after I
added a user with the name of the XP to the Win 2k. The ONLY thing that works
is that the Win 95 machines can access the XPs shared folders (and obviously
the Win 2Ks also).

One thing I noticed is that when I set up the peer-to-peer network I had to
enable the NETBEUI protocol to get all the PCs to talk to each other. I
cannot even find NETBUEI on the XP to enable. Could that be the problem (all
PCs also have TCP/IP enabled). The XP machine can communicate with the
internet just fine.

If anyone has any ideas I would appreciate hearing them. I was leery of
going with XP Home but was assured by someone a while back on one of these
Microsoft.com newsgroups that XP Home would work OK with a small network.

Thanks!

There should be no need to use NetBEUI on your network -- something
must be wrong with the TCP/IP protocol setup.

You can either remove NetBEUI and clean up TCP/IP (which I would
recommend), or install NetBEUI on XP and un-bind file sharing from
TCP/IP. I've written a web page with details:

Windows XP Network Protocols
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/xp/network_protocols.htm
--
Best Wishes,
Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

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