XP Pro, SP2, Firewall and My Workgroup

[W. Watson]

I installed SP2 the other day and it futzed up my McAfee firewall. I ended up
removing McAfee. I've engaged the MS firewall in the simplest possible way (just
enabled it), but when I look at either Computers Near Me or Computers in my
Workgroup, nothing is listed. I don't even get the computer I'm on. If I try to ping
it, I get errors. If I try to ping another computer on my local network, I get ping
errors. What's up?
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Wayne T. Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA)
(121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time)
Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet
(Formerly Homo habilis, erectus, heidelbergensis and now sapiens)

"There's no such thing as a stupid question,
but they're the easiest to answer!" -- anon.

Web Page: <home.earthlink.net/~mtnviews>

 

[Malke]

I installed SP2 the other day and it futzed up my McAfee firewall. I
ended up removing McAfee. I've engaged the MS firewall in the simplest
possible way (just enabled it), but when I look at either Computers
Near Me or Computers in my Workgroup, nothing is listed. I don't even
get the computer I'm on. If I try to ping it, I get errors. If I try
to ping another computer on my local network, I get ping errors.
What's up?

You have to make sure File & Printer Sharing is enabled under the
Exceptions tab in the Windows Firewall. Do this from the Windows
Firewall applet in Control Panel.

Malke

 

[W. Watson]

W. Watson wrote:




You have to make sure File & Printer Sharing is enabled under the
Exceptions tab in the Windows Firewall. Do this from the Windows
Firewall applet in Control Panel.

Malke

There's a check in that box. Even if I turn off the firewall, it doesn't let me see
my own computer.

--
Wayne T. Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA)
(121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time)
Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet
(Formerly Homo habilis, erectus, heidelbergensis and now sapiens)

"There's no such thing as a stupid question,
but they're the easiest to answer!" -- anon.

Web Page: <home.earthlink.net/~mtnviews>

 

[W. Watson]

There's a check in that box. Even if I turn off the firewall, it doesn't
let me see my own computer.

From another post concerning a very similar problem, we have:

I have a similar problem. This did not change my inability to see my
computer or any other computers (2 others) on my local network.
Computers Near Me displays nothing but Unknown.

If I go to the Run/Cmd window, and enter various pings like ping
localhost, ping 127.0.0.1, I get a ping. If I try 192.168.0.3 (this XP
computer) or 192.168.0.1 (in another room), I get "request timed out".
If I go to one of the other computers and try to ping the other
computers, I get "unreachable".