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Trouble with home network

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kadlet51

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I have Road Runner hooked up in my apartment, and I am sharing the internet connection through a Linksys router with one computer running xp media center, and one computer running windows 98. I can access the internet with both computers correctly. However, I would like to be able to share files and printers between the two and that is where I am having a problem. Both IP addresses are in the 192.168.x.xxx range. When I ping from the XP computer to the windows 98 computer, I get success. However, then when I try to do a run \\(computer name) command, I get no luck. When I ping from the windows 98 computer to the XP computer, all the attempts just time out. Any idea what is going on here? I am pretty confident the problem has something to do with the XP computer. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks guys.

Tim
 
Is the XP firewall enabled?

I don't remember if you can do this with the RTM and SP1 version of XP firewall, but in SP2 you would be able to create an exception for F&P sharing, ICMP replies, or all traffic from your internal subnet.
 
Check out Jack's Page for probably all the help you'll need. My recomendation is to pay close attention to the NETBEUI info as that has been a PERMANENT solution to my file sharing problems.
 
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