adding XP home to existing workgroup

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I have a laptop running XP home and I want to add it to an
existing network. I have given it internal IP addresses
and it can ping other PCs (but not itself) I can get to
the internet but that is it. As far as I can tell it is
set up to be on the correct workgroup. Why won't it work?
Please help. If it matters, I am running Norton antivirus.

thanks
 
"needhelp" said:
I have a laptop running XP home and I want to add it to an
existing network. I have given it internal IP addresses
and it can ping other PCs (but not itself) I can get to
the internet but that is it. As far as I can tell it is
set up to be on the correct workgroup. Why won't it work?
Please help. If it matters, I am running Norton antivirus.

thanks
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When a computer can't ping itself, the problem is almost certainly a
misconfigured firewall program. Un-install all firewalls while
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I was wondering i got a virus before i was able to get my firewall up and if i reinstalled windows xp home would it get rid of the vrus?
 
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