ketchupaholic
Junior Member
I'm hoping somebody can help me out here. I consider myself pretty good with computers, so this is a humbling expericnce for me 8).
I have a freind who has a small office, adn they don't make much money so I volunteer my services to help him out. Well, I went in and set up his two computers using the network wizard months ago and it was working perfect. Both machines could see each other and share files and printers.
Well he called me the other day and said it wasn't working. So I went in on Saturday and looked at it and sure enough the Windows XP Pro machine which is only a few months old wasn't seeing the XP home machine anymore and visa versa. I tried to set it up again but it just didn't work.
I kept getting an error about spollserve and to to send int he error to Microsoft. So out of frustaion I just brought his machine home and reformated the darned thing and reinstalled Windows XP pro. I put it on my netowrk at home hich has two XP home meachines and it worked perfectly. Then I brought it in to hook up on his machine, and it worked for five minutes then all of a suddent they didn't see each other anymore. I about lost it.
Then a friend told me that I should give them static IP addresses and set it up that way. The only problem is can somebody help me out and walk me through this. My buddy isn't that familiar with doing it, I would really appreciate it.
Thank you for your time.
I have a freind who has a small office, adn they don't make much money so I volunteer my services to help him out. Well, I went in and set up his two computers using the network wizard months ago and it was working perfect. Both machines could see each other and share files and printers.
Well he called me the other day and said it wasn't working. So I went in on Saturday and looked at it and sure enough the Windows XP Pro machine which is only a few months old wasn't seeing the XP home machine anymore and visa versa. I tried to set it up again but it just didn't work.
I kept getting an error about spollserve and to to send int he error to Microsoft. So out of frustaion I just brought his machine home and reformated the darned thing and reinstalled Windows XP pro. I put it on my netowrk at home hich has two XP home meachines and it worked perfectly. Then I brought it in to hook up on his machine, and it worked for five minutes then all of a suddent they didn't see each other anymore. I about lost it.
Then a friend told me that I should give them static IP addresses and set it up that way. The only problem is can somebody help me out and walk me through this. My buddy isn't that familiar with doing it, I would really appreciate it.
Thank you for your time.
