Connecting two WinXPPro machines: can ping but can't share files

[c.j[DOT]w]

Hello,

I am having problems connecting two Win XP Pro computers in a network. I
have set the IP adresses to 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.2. I can ping both
computers from both computers. From 0.1 I can see the files shared on
the 0.2 computer, but not the other way around.

The workgroups are the same. When I from computer 0.2 choose Run...
"\\192.168.0.1" I get the error message "Can't find network
search-path". Neither "\\computername\" works. And I do have shares on
the 0.1 computer, a harddrive with the resource name "E" with full
access for user-group "All".

Any help is appreciaetd.

 

[Conor]

Hello,

I am having problems connecting two Win XP Pro computers in a network. I
have set the IP adresses to 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.2. I can ping both
computers from both computers. From 0.1 I can see the files shared on
the 0.2 computer, but not the other way around.

The workgroups are the same. When I from computer 0.2 choose Run...
"\\192.168.0.1" I get the error message "Can't find network
search-path". Neither "\\computername\" works. And I do have shares on
the 0.1 computer, a harddrive with the resource name "E" with full
access for user-group "All".

Any help is appreciaetd.

Check your shares. Make sure the user account on each machine has
access to the other.

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Conor Turton
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ICQ:31909763
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[Rob Morley]

Hello,

I am having problems connecting two Win XP Pro computers in a network. I
have set the IP adresses to 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.2. I can ping both
computers from both computers. From 0.1 I can see the files shared on
the 0.2 computer, but not the other way around.

The workgroups are the same. When I from computer 0.2 choose Run...
"\\192.168.0.1" I get the error message "Can't find network
search-path". Neither "\\computername\" works. And I do have shares on
the 0.1 computer, a harddrive with the resource name "E" with full
access for user-group "All".

So is the user account on 0.2 a member of the "All" group on 0.1?

 

[c.j[DOT]w]

Hello,

I am having problems connecting two Win XP Pro computers in a network. I
have set the IP adresses to 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.2. I can ping both
computers from both computers. From 0.1 I can see the files shared on
the 0.2 computer, but not the other way around.

The workgroups are the same. When I from computer 0.2 choose Run...
"\\192.168.0.1" I get the error message "Can't find network
search-path". Neither "\\computername\" works. And I do have shares on
the 0.1 computer, a harddrive with the resource name "E" with full
access for user-group "All".

Any help is appreciaetd.

Check your shares. Make sure the user account on each machine has
access to the other.

See my reply to Morley. Can you tell me how to check this? When I start
Windows, no login-window appear. And since I am the only user of the
computers I'd like it to be that way. But maybe this is the problem.

 

[Rob Morley]

Hello,

I am having problems connecting two Win XP Pro computers in a network. I
have set the IP adresses to 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.2. I can ping both
computers from both computers. From 0.1 I can see the files shared on
the 0.2 computer, but not the other way around.

The workgroups are the same. When I from computer 0.2 choose Run...
"\\192.168.0.1" I get the error message "Can't find network
search-path". Neither "\\computername\" works. And I do have shares on
the 0.1 computer, a harddrive with the resource name "E" with full
access for user-group "All".

So is the user account on 0.2 a member of the "All" group on 0.1?

Maybe this is my problem. I don't really know. I don't log in to Windows
on the computers with a username and a password. But I think I found a
setting in something like "Local security policies" (translated from
Swedish Windows), something like "Treat anonymous as member of All" or
something like that. It was activated.

The easiest way to do it is to make sure that the local user has an
account on the remote machine - have you got a "Log off XXX ..." option
on your Start Menu where XXX is the username? If so just set up an
account on the remote machine using the same username and password, and
give that user the permissions required.

 

[Saine]

-----Original Message-----

<"c.j[DOT]w"@telia.com> says...

Rob Morley wrote:

<"c.j[DOT]w"@telia.com> says...


Hello,

I am having problems connecting two Win XP Pro computers in a network. I
have set the IP adresses to 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.2. I can ping both
computers from both computers. From 0.1 I can see the files shared on
the 0.2 computer, but not the other way around.

The workgroups are the same. When I from computer 0.2 choose Run...
"\\192.168.0.1" I get the error message "Can't find network
search-path". Neither "\\computername\" works. And I do have shares on
the 0.1 computer, a harddrive with the resource name "E" with full
access for user-group "All".


So is the user account on 0.2 a member of the "All" group on 0.1?

Maybe this is my problem. I don't really know. I don't log in to Windows
on the computers with a username and a password. But I think I found a
setting in something like "Local security policies" (translated from
Swedish Windows), something like "Treat anonymous as member of All" or
something like that. It was activated.



The easiest way to do it is to make sure that the local user has an
account on the remote machine - have you got a "Log off XXX ..." option
on your Start Menu where XXX is the username? If so just set up an
account on the remote machine using the same username and password, and
give that user the permissions required.

Yes, it says "Log off Administrator" on both computers. I think I have
seen the setting "Auto login Administrator on startup" or something like
that, activated. That's why I don't get the login- screen; the user
Administrator is logged on automatically on start-up. And the account
Administrator of course has full permissions on both machines already...
so what should I do?

Administrator doesn't count as the same user - it's specific to each
machine. Make yourself another account on each machine - it can have
full administrator privileges if you want. Log on using this account
and the other machine will recognise the user.
.

Hey dear!
Just try one thing. Define the gateway on the both machine
the gateway that should be the same. if it will not work
then dont be angry with me plz. i have an idea and that i
gave u nothing else.

Saine
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Conor]

See my reply to Morley. Can you tell me how to check this? When I start
Windows, no login-window appear. And since I am the only user of the
computers I'd like it to be that way. But maybe this is the problem.

Go into Control Panel, Users. Enable guest account. See if it works.


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Conor Turton
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ICQ:31909763
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[c.j[DOT]w]

Go into Control Panel, Users. Enable guest account. See if it works.

It is enabled.

 

[c.j[DOT]w]

Rob Morley wrote:

Administrator doesn't count as the same user - it's specific to each
machine. Make yourself another account on each machine - it can have
full administrator privileges if you want. Log on using this account
and the other machine will recognise the user.

I will try that, but I would preferr to logon as the administrator on
both machines - because then I can get rid of the login-dialog at
Windows startup (with the "Administrator autologon" or something like
that). And it works in one direction - it must be possible to get it to
work in both.

On my XP machine I've disabled the Administrator account and it logs me
in automatically as the other user that I have set up. I don't think I
did anything to make it do that, although you probably need to enable
simple file sharing permissions or something. And don't disable
Administrator if the other account doesn't have full admin rights.

I've tried to set up two new accounts with the same username and
password on both machines, but without results. Still the same problem.
Any other idea?

 

[c.j[DOT]w]

I solved it.

In "Properties" for the network connections, I saw that there was
something strange with the "File and Printer sharing for Microsoft
Networks". Its checkbox was greyed, making me suspect some part of it
was disabled. There are no properties for this service though. So I
decided to reinstall it. After doing so, the checkbox was no longer
greyed, and the whole network worked fine.