Re: Networking causing hair removal

["Christopher Purves" <CHRIS_PURVES@xxxxxxx>]

Have you run the windows network wizard on each pc and made sure you have
the same workgroup on both ? I use 'home' for mine. Occasionally one
machine can't see the other but it is usually because it has the wrong
workgroup (the default is mshome I think).

The first thing to do is to see if 'ping works. e.g ping 192.168.0.1 from a
command prompt.
where 192,168.0.1 is the ip address of the machine you are trying to reach.
Also, firewalls like zone alarm can really get in the way. You must enable
ICS mode in it properly or you will have a nightmare.

Chris

----- Original Message -----
From: seniorsimon<mailto:simon.ryley@xxxxxxx>
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx<mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: 31 July 2004 08:12
Subject: [ukha_d] Networking causing hair removal


Morning all,

Can anyone recommend a good online networking tutorial or settings
tool.  I'm trying to get a XP home machine to talk to a win2k
machine. Neither can see each other properly, the shares don't work
and its driving me nuts.  I've tried every protocol I can think of
and it still won't happen.  Flipping Windows.

Anyway,

TIA,

Simon