XP SP-2 Upgrade trashed my home network

[J. M. Anderson]

After installing service pack 2, I can no longer access
my XP machine from my older computer. This means that I
cannot print through the network.

If this is what I have to live with for increased
security, then I would rather do without.

Please help me get my computer back to what it would do
before - with or without SP-2.

JMA

 

[Jerry]

Did you turn off the XP firewall so that the older machine can 'see it'?

 

[Kent W. England [MVP]]

J. M. Anderson wrote on 29-Aug-2004 11:45 AM:

After installing service pack 2, I can no longer access
my XP machine from my older computer. This means that I
cannot print through the network.

If this is what I have to live with for increased
security, then I would rather do without.

Please help me get my computer back to what it would do
before - with or without SP-2.

JMA

Open the Windows Firewall control panel, select "ON" allowing
exceptions, click the Exceptions tab and enable "File and printer
sharing". If it is already on, click Edit and set the scope to "My
network only". If you are behind a cable/DSL router, you can disable the
firewall and still be protected by the router from Internet intrusion.
There is also a setting to tell Windows to stop complaining that your
firewall is OFF. It is in the task sidebar in the Security Center
control panel (Change ... alerts).

 

[Guest]

Tried all below, my network is still trashed. Both my machines are xp sp-2.
when I installed sp-2 on the networked laptop, it cannot obtain an ip address.