networking 2 two computers thru lan

prawinready

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Mar 26, 2005
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hi all
i have two windows xp home edition systems , connceted them to as lan , gave ip address 192.168.0.1 n subnet 255.255.255.0 for main system and 192.168.0.2 and subnet 255.255.255.0 for the other sytem .

now the problem is that other system with ip 192.168.0.2 can see main system and acees fiels from main sytem , but the main sytems can't see the other system ,
i pinged frm both ends its working fine , wat shal i have to see files frm the main system , i there anything i have missed to add in main sytem ?
plz solve my problem

thanks in advance

- praveen
 

Woody419

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A short checklist:

Workgroups have the same name
Firewalls configured to allow IP addresses
Folders/hd configured to allow sharing
 

Nocturnal

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Make sure if you are running Zone Alarm that it isn't on or uninstall it to be sure.