Network

[Tomas]

I have a home network with several computers both wired and wireless and also

with various operating systems. Everything works correctly EXCEPT for the

Windows XP Pro machine that does not see any of the other computers in

Network places, even though all the other computers can see it. It will ping

the other computers correctly but does not show them in the network and so I

cannot access the other computer's shared files from the XP machine. I'm

stumped !

 

[Lem]

Tomas wrote:

> I have a home network with several computers both wired and wireless and also

> with various operating systems. Everything works correctly EXCEPT for the

> Windows XP Pro machine that does not see any of the other computers in

> Network places, even though all the other computers can see it. It will ping

> the other computers correctly but does not show them in the network and so I

> cannot access the other computer's shared files from the XP machine. I'm

> stumped !



Check -- and double check -- your firewall settings, including any

firewall-like features included in your antivirus application (e.g.,

Norton's "Internet Worm Protection").



From a Command Prompt, run ipconfig /all and confirm that the XP

computer is in the same subnet as the others (should be, if it gets its

IP address from a common router's DHCP server, but you gave almost no

information about the configuration of your network).



Can any other computer either ping the XP computer or access files on

the XP computer?



Can you access a share on any other computer manually from the XP box via

Start > Run

\\computername\sharename



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Lem



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[db]

during your analysis

you might turn off the

firewalls and disable

your anti virals for all

the machines.



at least you will have

some assurance that

the above are not

inhibiting your

connectivity.



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"Tomas" wrote in message news:31A01AB4-8E12-4844-91CA-D29A722B8BEE@microsoft.com...

> I have a home network with several computers both wired and wireless and also

> with various operating systems. Everything works correctly EXCEPT for the

> Windows XP Pro machine that does not see any of the other computers in

> Network places, even though all the other computers can see it. It will ping

> the other computers correctly but does not show them in the network and so I

> cannot access the other computer's shared files from the XP machine. I'm

> stumped !

 

[Guest]

"Tomas" wrote in message news:31A01AB4-8E12-4844-91CA-D29A722B8BEE@microsoft.com...

>I have a home network with several computers both wired and wireless and also

> with various operating systems. Everything works correctly EXCEPT for the

> Windows XP Pro machine that does not see any of the other computers in

> Network places, even though all the other computers can see it. It will ping

> the other computers correctly but does not show them in the network and so I

> cannot access the other computer's shared files from the XP machine. I'm

> stumped !



Have you run the Network Setup Wizard on this machine?



Also make sure file/folder sharing has been enabled. The

option isn't where you think it might be. Then make sure at

least one file/folder is shared.



Also check Group Policy for non-default network restrictions.

 

[John Wunderlich]

=?Utf-8?B?VG9tYXM=?= wrote in

news:31A01AB4-8E12-4844-91CA-D29A722B8BEE@microsoft.com:



> I have a home network with several computers both wired and

> wireless and also with various operating systems. Everything

> works correctly EXCEPT for the Windows XP Pro machine that does

> not see any of the other computers in Network places, even though

> all the other computers can see it. It will ping the other

> computers correctly but does not show them in the network and so I

> cannot access the other computer's shared files from the XP

> machine. I'm stumped !



A rather esoteric problem that occurs under some rare specific

conditions but fits your description is addressed by the following:



"You cannot view other workgroup computers on the network on a

Windows XP-based computer"