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[Guest]

I have a home network consisting of 4 computers. 3 are running XP Home and
one is XP Pro. They are all behind a netgear natted router on a private
network (default of netgear) using DHCP. 3 of the computers talk, ping and
share files and printers with no problem, the forth (XP Home w/sp1, not sp2)
cannot be ping from the other three, it can ping them but not get pinged, and
the sharing of its files and printer is on and off (mostly off).

I have looked at all the IP settings and they are the same as the other 3.
It does not have SP2 and therefor it is not the new firewall issue. I have
printer and file sharing turned on. It can ping but not be pinged.

What am I not doing right?

 

[Chuck]

I have a home network consisting of 4 computers. 3 are running XP Home and
one is XP Pro. They are all behind a netgear natted router on a private
network (default of netgear) using DHCP. 3 of the computers talk, ping and
share files and printers with no problem, the forth (XP Home w/sp1, not sp2)
cannot be ping from the other three, it can ping them but not get pinged, and
the sharing of its files and printer is on and off (mostly off).

I have looked at all the IP settings and they are the same as the other 3.
It does not have SP2 and therefor it is not the new firewall issue. I have
printer and file sharing turned on. It can ping but not be pinged.

What am I not doing right?

Don,

File sharing problems in general, and intermittent file sharing problems, can
have a number of causes.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/troubleshooting-network-neighborhood.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/troubleshooting-network-neighborhood.html

Take a look at "browstat status" and "ipconfig /all" from each computer, as a
start. Read this article, and linked articles, and follow instructions
precisely:
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/troubleshooting-network-neighborhood.html#AskingForHelp>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/troubleshooting-network-neighborhood.html#AskingForHelp