Peer-to-peer network between XP Home and Windows 2000

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Gail Kling

Our goal is to download data from our old computer (with
Windows 2000) to our new computer (with Windows XP Home).
A crossover cable is connected to the ethernet card on
each computer. The cable is OK and the new computer can
see the old computer but we can't access the old
computer's hard drive. We are convinced that everything
is setup correctly.

Is there a conflict with Windows 2000?
 
"Gail Kling" said:
Our goal is to download data from our old computer (with
Windows 2000) to our new computer (with Windows XP Home).
A crossover cable is connected to the ethernet card on
each computer. The cable is OK and the new computer can
see the old computer but we can't access the old
computer's hard drive. We are convinced that everything
is setup correctly.

Is there a conflict with Windows 2000?
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No, there's no conflict -- all versions of Windows can network with
each other.

Please reply to this message in the news group (not by E-mail) with
more information to help other people understand the problem:

How are you trying to access the old computer's hard drive -- what are
you typing or clicking? What exactly happens when you do it? If
there's an error message, what does it say?
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Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

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Gail Kling said:
Our goal is to download data from our old computer (with
Windows 2000) to our new computer (with Windows XP Home).
A crossover cable is connected to the ethernet card on
each computer. The cable is OK and the new computer can
see the old computer but we can't access the old
computer's hard drive. We are convinced that everything
is setup correctly.

Is there a conflict with Windows 2000?
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On the W2k computer, you have to "share" the c: drive.
 
-----Original Message-----
Our goal is to download data from our old computer (with
Windows 2000) to our new computer (with Windows XP Home).
A crossover cable is connected to the ethernet card on
each computer. The cable is OK and the new computer can
see the old computer but we can't access the old
computer's hard drive. We are convinced that everything
is setup correctly.

Is there a conflict with Windows 2000?
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Thank you for responding to my inquiry.

Before we give you the error messages, we would like to
describe the setup that has been done on each PC.

Old PC (Windows 2000):
-IP address - 192.168.100.2
-Subnet mask - 255.255.255.0
-Default gateway - 192.168.100.1
-LAN is enabled
-C drive is shared
-Old PC name - Oldcomputer
-Workgroup name - WORKGROUP
-Fire wall is disabled
-As far as we can tell we are logged on as administrator
-Error message: After double clicking on the "Computers
near me" icon the following error message appears -
"\\oldcomputer is not accessible. You might not have
permission to use this network resource. Contact the
administrator of this server to find out if you have
access permission."

New PC (Windows XP Home Edition):
-IP address - 192.168.100.1
-Subnet mask - 255.255.255.0
-Default gateway - 192.168.100.1
-LAN is enabled
-C drive is shared
-New PC name - Main_PC
-Workgroup name - WORKGROUP
-We are logged on as administrators
-We try to access the old PC by double clicking on the
Oldcomputer icon under Microsoft network. The error
message - "Workgroup is not accessible. The list of
servers for this workgroup is not currently available."
 
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