Home Networking Help!!

[Rebes]

I have two pcs both running Win Vista Home Premium, they are connected to the
internet via a netgear router through cables. PCB can see PCA but PCA cannot
see PCB. I have noticed that PCB's workgroup is called MSHOME and PCA's
workgroup is called Workgroup. I have followed the help menu to change the
workgroup but it doesn't give me the option called "Member of" to enable me
to change it. I am presuming that this is one problem but there will
probably be others. Any ideas folks? By the way, PCB can see the public
folder on PCA but again, not the other way round. Both are connecting to the
Internet fine.

 

[Robert L. \(MS-MVP\)]

We need more information about changing workgroup name, but can you ping PCB
from PCA?

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[Bob Willard]

I have two pcs both running Win Vista Home Premium, they are connected to the
internet via a netgear router through cables. PCB can see PCA but PCA cannot
see PCB. I have noticed that PCB's workgroup is called MSHOME and PCA's
workgroup is called Workgroup. I have followed the help menu to change the
workgroup but it doesn't give me the option called "Member of" to enable me
to change it. I am presuming that this is one problem but there will
probably be others. Any ideas folks? By the way, PCB can see the public
folder on PCA but again, not the other way round. Both are connecting to the
Internet fine.

One-way connections are usually caused by misconfigured firewalls. As a
first step to troubleshooting, disable all M$ firewalls, and remove
(i.e., uninstall) all other firewalls and all AV apps (since some AV apps
include firewalls).


Make sure you can PING-by-number and PING-by-name, in both directions.