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LAN and XP

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Eltano1

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I have a LAN setup with 4 pcs, and I just installed XP in my own pc, and I can't find a way to see or be seen by the rest within the network, I did the network wizard and I used the floppy setup in the others pcs but still no go. What I'm doing wrong?

Thanks ind advance for your help.

Eltano
 
Well first of all, have you tried to ping the XP machine? If you can, then it's not a hardware problem. If it says destination host unreachable, then you probably have your XP machine set to DHCP, and so it assigned itself a class B i.p. address of 169.254.xxx.xxx. This means you need to change your i.p. to something that is in the same subnet as your other three. I hope you are using TCP/IP. The workgroup really shouldn't matter with XP. Also, to access files on an NT, 2000, or XP machine, you must have a user account on that machine that is the same as the one you are trying to access it from. When you say you used the floppy setup on the other ones, are you talking about not being able to use Internet Connection Sharing?
 
I'm using static IPs in each pc, even in my new XP, not DHCP server is enable, and I use the floppy setup that I created when running the network wizard (I follow the instructions to set it up in " no XP pcs" .
It was running perfectly before with 1 W2KPRO and 3 WinME, and now one of the ME pcs became XP, and I can't make to see the other ones.

Eltano
 
So you can ping each other, but you can't see each other's shares? I still don't understand the floppy setup thing. Why did you need a floppy? Is it for Internet Connection Sharing? If you go to a command line, and type \\computername, what error are you seeing? Does it say the network is not present or isn't started, or does it say that the network path cannot be found? Does it ask you for a username and password?
 
XP b2 dosn't seem to like 9x boxes, I had put it down to the fact that NetBUEI (?) was gone but that dosn't explane why it can quite happly see NT boxes on a network when the only proticol is TCP/IP.

I would expect discovery of other machines to take a while though, TCP assumes you know the IP of the other machine so dosn't broadcast like NetBUEI.
 
\\computername error= computer path not found. The floppy is part of the network wizard setup, and it will allow you to set up the same config in pcs that are not XP.

Thanks for trying.

Eltano
 
use \\[computer IP], you could also modify the host file and add the other machines.

I am assuming you have file sharing enabled and a shared dir?
 
Yes, I have shared the same files as before. Hey, it works when I did \\xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (IPs), and why if it works this way it doesn't the other way.

Eltano
 
easy your PC dosn't know the names of the other machines. If you leave the machines up, it will pickup the other PCs.

I think there may have been a change in proticol or something, because my XP hates win9x machines. It dosn't mind NT or linux though.
 
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