Trouble with home network

kadlet51

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May 26, 2004
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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
 

stash

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Jun 22, 2000
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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.
 

sjgmoney

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Apr 28, 2004
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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.