Connecting XP pro and XP home in a small home network

[Haus]

Hello
Have you disabled the ICF (firewall) on the home machine.

Have you enabled Simple file sharing.
Start>Control Panel>Folder Options>View

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Haus
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Hello

I am trying to connect three computers through one network hub for file

sharing and the internet in a small home network. Two of the computers run
XP pro and are connected - file sharing works. All three computers work on
the internet.

The problem. It seems as through i dont have 'permission' to connect and

file share with the home machine. All of the Settings on both machines are
obtain ip automatically - On both professional machines, the icon for the
home machine is there, but says the network path is unavailable.

 

[Guest]

Hell

I am trying to connect three computers through one network hub for file sharing and the internet in a small home network. Two of the computers run XP pro and are connected - file sharing works. All three computers work on the internet.

The problem. It seems as through i dont have 'permission' to connect and file share with the home machine. All of the Settings on both machines are obtain ip automatically - On both professional machines, the icon for the home machine is there, but says the network path is unavailable.

Please help

Thank yo

Jacob

 

[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

Hello

I am trying to connect three computers through one network hub for file sharing and the internet in a small home network. Two of the computers run XP pro and are connected - file sharing works. All three computers work on the internet.

The problem. It seems as through i dont have 'permission' to connect and file share with the home machine. All of the Settings on both machines are obtain ip automatically - On both professional machines, the icon for the home machine is there, but says the network path is unavailable.

Please help!

Thank you

Jacob

Run the Network Setup Wizard on the home machine to fully enable file
sharing. Tell it that the computer connects to the Internet through a
residential gateway.

If that doesn't fix the problem, try these steps:

1. Make sure that NetBIOS over TCP/IP is enabled:

a. Open the Network Connections folder.
b. Right click the local area network connection and click
Properties.
c. Double click Internet Protocol (TCP/IP).
d. Click Advanced.
e. Click WINS.
f. Click the Enable NetBIOS Over TCP/IP button.

2. 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
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