Networking XP Home possible?

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I have two PC's - one running XP Home SP2, the other running WIN2K Pro SP4.
They are connected through a Netgear MR314 (XP Home via ethernet cable; WIN2K
Pro via wireless connection. Both PC's can get to the internet, both can see
the workgroup. Neither can see themselves or each other in the workgroup.
Windows firewall disabled; Norton Internet Security disabled. Still no good.
Is it possible for these to to see each other? If so, How? Thanks.
 
I have two PC's - one running XP Home SP2, the other running WIN2K Pro SP4.
They are connected through a Netgear MR314 (XP Home via ethernet cable; WIN2K
Pro via wireless connection. Both PC's can get to the internet, both can see
the workgroup. Neither can see themselves or each other in the workgroup.
Windows firewall disabled; Norton Internet Security disabled. Still no good.
Is it possible for these to to see each other? If so, How? Thanks.
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Norton Internet Security (Norton Personal Firewall) is well known for causing
problems like yours when disabled. You may need to enable and configure it
properly, or enable and un install, completely, following Symantec un install
procedures.

The browser is a very common cause of problems like yours, if not NPF.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/04/nt-browser-or-why-cant-i-always-see.html>

The Microsoft Browstat program will show us what browsers (I'm not talking about
Internet Explorer here) you have in your domain / workgroup, at any time.
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=188305

You can download Browstat from either:
<http://www.dynawell.com/reskit/microsoft/win2000/browstat.zip>
<http://rescomp.stanford.edu/staff/manual/rcc/tools/browstat.zip>

Browstat is very small (40K), and needs no install. Just unzip the downloaded
file, copy browstat.exe to any folder in the Path, and run it from a command
window, by "browstat status". Make sure all computers list the same master
browser.

For more information about the browser subsystem (very intricate), see:
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=188305
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=188001
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=231312
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q102878/
<http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winntas/deploy/prodspecs/ntbrowse.mspx>
<http://www.microsoft.com/technet/archive/win95/w95brows.mspx>

The browser requires anonymous access, so look at registry key
[HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa], value restrictanonymous.
<http://www.microsoft.com/windows200...2000/techinfo/reskit/en-us/regentry/46688.asp>
<http://www.jsifaq.com/subf/tip2600/rh2625.htm>
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=246261
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=296403

For browsing to work (for each computer to be listed by a browser), each
computer must have a restrictanonymous value of "0".

The above articles refer to Windows 2000. Remember Win2K is NT V5.0, and WinXP
is NT V5.1.

Have you used the Registry Editor before? If not, it's a scary tool, but it's
pretty simple once you get used to it. Here are a couple articles that might
help:
<http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/...home/using/productdoc/en/tools_regeditors.asp>
<http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/registry>

Just remember to backup the key (create a registry patch) for
[HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa] before making any changes, if
appropriate.
 
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