XP and Windows 2000 not connecting?

[Tavish Muldoon]

Hello,

I have a Windows 2000 SP 3 computer going through a hub/switch from
there another computer is attached a Windows XP Pro computer. (The
hub/switch is connected to a DSL modem - so the W2k machine has
internet access - not important right now.)

The XP computer was from another domain, the W2k computer is from a
workgroup. I want to transfer a file from the W2k machine to the XP
machine. So far no luck.

I did a find computer for the XP one - no sign. So I changed the XP
domain to the same workgroup name as the Windows 2000 machine. Did a
find - now I can see the XP computer.

Try to connect get an error "<Computer name> path is inaccessible" -
but I can see it.

I created a shared folder on the XP machine, enabled the guest account
- still "<Computer name> path is inaccessible".

1) What do I have to do to connect them to transfer a file?

2) The XP computer can be seen by W2k and vice versa - since they are
going through a hub - is there a way to 'ping' each computer (no ip
addresses)?

Thanks much!

Tmuld

 

[Madhur Ahuja]

Hello,

I have a Windows 2000 SP 3 computer going through a hub/switch from
there another computer is attached a Windows XP Pro computer. (The
hub/switch is connected to a DSL modem - so the W2k machine has
internet access - not important right now.)

The XP computer was from another domain, the W2k computer is from a
workgroup. I want to transfer a file from the W2k machine to the XP
machine. So far no luck.

I did a find computer for the XP one - no sign. So I changed the XP
domain to the same workgroup name as the Windows 2000 machine. Did a
find - now I can see the XP computer.

Try to connect get an error "<Computer name> path is inaccessible" -
but I can see it.

Post the results of *ipconfig /all* of both computers here.

 

[Steven L Umbach]

Look in the firewall logs to see what traffic is being dropped. You may
first need to configure the firewall to log all traffic for that connection
inbound and outbound. --- Steve

 

[Steven L Umbach]

Oops. Disregard. I posted reply to wrong message. --- Steve

 

[Tavish Muldoon]

Post the results of *ipconfig /all* of both computers here.


Unfortunately, the laptop is not longer available.

The firewalls were turned off.

There was no connection to the internet.

I believe each computers showed an 169.254.xxx.xxx IP
Subnet masks were 255.255.255.xxx

I never did a ping <computer name> - would ping work?

It is interesting it would only show up after changing to the same
work group - each computer could see each other, but no access. "Path
is inaccessible" seems like an odd error.

Thanks,

victor

 

[Madhur Ahuja]

Unfortunately, the laptop is not longer available.

The firewalls were turned off.

There was no connection to the internet.

I believe each computers showed an 169.254.xxx.xxx IP
Subnet masks were 255.255.255.xxx

I never did a ping <computer name> - would ping work?

Yes, it should work.

It is interesting it would only show up after changing to the same
work group - each computer could see each other, but no access. "Path
is inaccessible" seems like an odd error.

Make sure that Netbios over TCP/IP is enabled. Also you have an account with
common username and password, and one of the user logged on with that
account.

 

[f/f george]

The 169 IP address is the MS default that Windows uses when it is not
receiving an IP address from someplace. It is a place to start looking
for finding of the cause of the problem. It means that your network
card is working but not receiving a signal giving it an IP address.