ICS works fine but no network access

[mike]

Hi group

I have Win XP-home on the machine that connects to broadband (home 2) and a
remote PC (home 1) running XP-Pro that accesses the internet through home 2.
Both have SP2 and both have NIS 2004. I've run 'create new network' on both
machines and activated F&P sharing (and made the drives shareable). The
network worked fine (both ways) when home 2 ran with win 98 but not XP.

Any ideas as to how to get my networking back? (I'm guessing it's some sort
of XP-pro security issue - I've checked the NIS settings and tried it with
NIS disabled).

Thanks in advance.

 

[Quaoar]

Hi group

I have Win XP-home on the machine that connects to broadband (home 2)
and a remote PC (home 1) running XP-Pro that accesses the internet
through home 2. Both have SP2 and both have NIS 2004. I've run
'create new network' on both machines and activated F&P sharing (and
made the drives shareable). The network worked fine (both ways) when
home 2 ran with win 98 but not XP.
Any ideas as to how to get my networking back? (I'm guessing it's
some sort of XP-pro security issue - I've checked the NIS settings
and tried it with NIS disabled).

Thanks in advance.

Disable the Windows firewall, if not already. This *might* work: Open
the network connection, TCP/IP properties/General tab/Advanced
properties/TCP/IP filtering properties. Check Enable filtering, then
change Permit Only to Permit All on the three ports/protocols. Also,
set the Computer Browser service to Automatic and start if not already,
verify that Internet connection firewall/internet connection sharing
service is Automatic startup and is running, Security Center service is
running. Animal sacrifice might work, but I've not tried that yet.

Q

 

[mike]

Disable the Windows firewall, if not already. This *might* work: Open the
network connection, TCP/IP properties/General tab/Advanced
properties/TCP/IP filtering properties. Check Enable filtering, then
change Permit Only to Permit All on the three ports/protocols.

OK - did all that (bit wary about having firewalls down with broadband - but
I do still have NIS firewall enabled). Both computers *appear* on the
remote computer but when I try to explore it says "access is denied... you
might not have permission to use this resource. Contact the
administrator..." etc. <rant> Hell, I *am* the administrator, I set the

Also, set the Computer Browser service to Automatic and start if not
already, verify that Internet connection firewall/internet connection
sharing service is Automatic startup and is running, Security Center
service is running.

I can't find any of these - sorry.

Animal sacrifice might work, but I've not tried that yet.

Hmm...

Incidentally, how come everything works, XP-pro to Win 98 but not XP-pro to
XP-home? And ICS + email is fine. Also, when I did a clean XP-pro install
on a spare HDD (on the remote PC), both ICS and the network (incl printing)
worked fine for the first evening and never again. ?

Thanks for the suggestions anyway.

Mike