Networking issues

[Steve]

Can anyone help me here ?

What I'm tring to do is set up a 3 machine network
consisting of 1 XP home machine, 1 WinME machine and 1
Laptop running 2000. The laptop and the ME machine talk
to each other no probs but I can't see anything on the XP
machine. Form the XP machine I can ping both the 2000 and
the ME machine,but from either the ME of 2000 machine I
cannot ping the XP machine. There is no firewall enabled
for the LAN connection on the XP machine. Can anyone help
me please ???????

 

[bcode]

On the XP Machine, go into Control Panel -> Network Connections. Get
properties on your Local Area Connection. Click on the TCP/IP protocol, and
get properties on that. Click the "Advanced..." button on the General Tab.
Goto "WINS" tab, and put the dot in "Enable NetBIOS over TCP/IP."

That should take care of the problem. The two computers won't show up in
your "Network Nieborhood" for 15-35 minutes... so don't jugde it on that.

Goto Start -> run. type in "\\computer_name" (where computer_name is
the computer name specified in the system properties of one of the ME or
2000 machines.) Or \\IP_address. Either should work just fine then.

Hope this helps.

bcode

 

[Steve]

SORTED - Thanks

-----Original Message-----
On the XP Machine, go into Control Panel -> Network Connections. Get
properties on your Local Area Connection. Click on the TCP/IP protocol, and
get properties on that. Click the "Advanced..." button on the General Tab.
Goto "WINS" tab, and put the dot in "Enable NetBIOS over TCP/IP."

That should take care of the problem. The two computers won't show up in
your "Network Nieborhood" for 15-35 minutes... so don't jugde it on that.

Goto Start -> run. type in "\\computer_name" (where computer_name is
the computer name specified in the system properties of one of the ME or
2000 machines.) Or \\IP_address. Either should work just fine then.

Hope this helps.

bcode


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