Can someone please help with network setup?

[Jonathan]

I have a peer network with about 20 pc's onit running
various flavors of Windows. We have 98, Win2K, XPH and
XPP.

I am trying to setup a new XPP machine onthe network and
am having some trouble.

I can get it on the network, get it out to the internet
have POP mail fromthe outside provider set up but still
can't see other computers on our network.

We have no DHCP so all the IPs are static.

I have made sure that the new one has an IP that we
havn't used yet and that the workgroup name is the same
as the other boxes.

From the new box I can ping anything on the network by IP
address but when pinging by name get an unknown host.

When I try to ping the new box by either name or IP I get
a timeout.

Does anyone have an idea what I can check?

Thanks
jw

 

[Chuck]

I have a peer network with about 20 pc's onit running
various flavors of Windows. We have 98, Win2K, XPH and
XPP.

I am trying to setup a new XPP machine onthe network and
am having some trouble.

I can get it on the network, get it out to the internet
have POP mail fromthe outside provider set up but still
can't see other computers on our network.

We have no DHCP so all the IPs are static.

I have made sure that the new one has an IP that we
havn't used yet and that the workgroup name is the same
as the other boxes.

From the new box I can ping anything on the network by IP
address but when pinging by name get an unknown host.

When I try to ping the new box by either name or IP I get
a timeout.

Does anyone have an idea what I can check?

Thanks
jw

Jonathan,

Please provide ipconfig information for the problem computer, and for one
working computer with XP Pro also.
Start - Run - "cmd". Type "ipconfig /all >c:\ipconfig.txt" into the command
window - Open c:\ipconfig.txt in Notepad, copy and paste into your next post.

Do any of the computers have a software firewall (ICF / WF or third party)? If
so, you need to configure them for file sharing, by opening ports TCP 139, 445
and UDP 137, 138, 445, and / or by identifying the other computers as present in
the Local (Trusted) zone. Firewall configurations are a very common cause of
(network) browser, file sharing, and pinging, problems.

Cheers,
Chuck
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