XP Networking Problem

[Bill]

Sorry if this is long but I want to explain the problem as well as I can.
I have a small home network setup with 4 computers and a Linksys 8 port
Router/Switch. A laptop is sometimes also connected to the network.
Computer OS= 3 Windows ME, 1 XP Pro SP1, and the laptop has XP Home SP1. The
router is connected to a DSL modem and is set to act as the DHCP server. For
some reason the only way I could get the computers to see each other was to
add NetBEUI to all of them including the 2 XP units. They all can see and
share without a problem. Now comes the problem, I just finished upgrading an
old machine to XP Pro SP1. When it is connected to the Router/Switch it can
connect to the internet without a problem, but it will not connect to the
other computers. Both the XP Pro desktop and XP Home laptop connected right
out of the box new from Dell and Gateway the only thing I had to add was
NetBEUI to them and set the sharing permissions on them. The new upgrade
will not connect no matter what I try and I have tried all of the
suggestions posted here and on the web. I know it is probably a setting I
have overlooked, but I cannot figure out where it might be. None of the
computers have ever been able to ping anything but the router since it was
installed over a year ago. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

 

[Robert L [MS-MVP]]

this may help. quoted from http://www.ChicagoTech.net
How to enable NetBIOS over TCP/IP in a peer-to-peer network
To access pre-2000/XP computers from w9x, NT and ME on a peer-to-peer
network, you may need to enable NetBIOS over TCP/IP on the win2000/XP. To do
that, go to the properties of My Network Places>network
connection>Properties of TCP/IP>Advanced >WINS, select "Enable NetBIOS over
TCP/IP".


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[Bob Cerelli]

The basics for troubleshooting are:

1. Make sure you have the same IP scheme (e.g. 192.168.0.x).

2. Make sure you have the same Subnet Mask, Gateway, and DNS IP addresses.

3. Make sure you can ping the other computer's IP address. If this fails,
make sure you turn of XP's firewall.

4. Make sure you can ping the other computers by name.

5. Make sure you have the same workgroup name (watch for trailing spaces)

6. For troubleshooting purposes, turn off XP's and any other firewall
software. You can always add more complexity after you get it working.

7. With XP, make sure you have the same username and password as the person
logging onto the other computers. The default setting for XP Pro is to
require a password for network access.

8. More details about how to network XP can be found at:
http://www.onecomputerguy.com/networking/xp_network.htm

9. More details about how to troubleshoot TCP/IP networkcs can be found at:
http://www.onecomputerguy.com/networking/trouble.htm

10. Apply the registry edit to fix the browsing delay from XP to Win9x
computers
http://www.onecomputerguy.com/windowsxp_tips.htm#browsing_delay.

There continues to be a lot of misinformation about needing NetBEUI or to
changing the NetBIOS setting. You can ignore both. Installing NetBEUI to
solve a networking problem will just mask a some underlying and potentially
important misconfiguration with TCP/IP. The default NetBIOS setting works
fine so there is no need to change that either.

Bob Cerelli
http://www.onecomputerguy.com