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Name: Scizzy
Date: May 28, 2005 at 01:11:52 Pacific
OS: Windows XP Home w/ SP2
CPU/Ram: Sempron 2800+ // 512 DDR
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Hey fellas,

I got a network setup like this. Cable to WRT54G wireless router. Cat5 to my "family" comp, and wireless to my fiance's "tistoe", my laptop "lappy" and my bro's comp "danny"

All running XP.

When on my laptop, Open up network places, I can see all but my brothers "danny" shared docs. When I click on Computers in workgroup. It brings up all of them, family, mine, server, tistoe, and danny!
When I click on danny, it says \\Home network not available. You dont have permission, blah blah contact administrator.

So I was messing with it and the xp firewalls on my brothers and my laptop aren't blocking anything. Netbios over TCP/IP enabled on both of ours. I can ping him by ip and "danny".

On his computer!... he can only ping mine "lappy" by IP, NOT by my pc's name.

Does that have anything to do with it.

I just like to send him files and such and I hate burning crap to a cd, its too long, and I just dont understand how to get the network to work... He can see mine, and everyone elses, but I can't access his shared files.

Same workgroup.
Same settings in Wireless Properties.
XP firewall not blocking anything.
Router isn't blocking anything.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks guys



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Response Number 1
Name: wanderer
Date: May 28, 2005 at 21:55:56 Pacific
Reply:

google on lmhosts file. this may address your issue but it appears to me you may still have a firewall blocking some traffic.


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Response Number 2
Name: pmkdatabase
Date: May 29, 2005 at 21:03:01 Pacific
Reply:

Computers in workgroup. It brings up all of them, family, mine, server , tistoe, and danny!

You said all the computers run XP - what about the one named 'server'?

If you can ping by IP but not name that suggests DNS problem, but if they are all running XP that should not come into play. Are you using simple or advanced file sharing? Do you have at least on account with the same username and password on all the computers?

Peter


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Response Number 3
Name: Scizzy
Date: May 29, 2005 at 22:23:38 Pacific
Reply:

Well, all of them are running XP... EXCEPT Server, thats windows 2000 server advanced.

They can all ping eachother, by ip, and name... Lappy (mine) can ping everyone by name and ip, even danny's.

Danny's can't ping mine by name (lappy), but by ip yes.

None of them have the same names and passwords except the server, because thats mine too.

Simple or advanced file sharing, not sure. Just did network setup from within network places in XP.

I just dont understand why I can't access my brothers comp from mine, but he can access mine.

Its one of the little things that bother me.

Can anyone help, thanks for the replies so far!

Scizzy


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Response Number 4
Name: pmkdatabase
Date: May 29, 2005 at 23:24:45 Pacific
Reply:

Is this a workgroup or domain?
What IPs does Danny's have for DNS servers in the network TCP/IP settings?

Peter


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Response Number 5
Name: Scizzy
Date: May 30, 2005 at 02:01:44 Pacific
Reply:

On mine, I opened up cmd and typed ipconfig /all

put in the same dns servers in for mine, into danny's, no help...


And this is a workgroup...

Called HOME


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Response Number 6
Name: pmkdatabase
Date: May 30, 2005 at 05:36:01 Pacific
Reply:

Are you sure Danny is a member of the workgroup?

Go into the advanced TCP/IP settings of the local network connection and be sure there is no IP filtering turned on.

Is there antivirus or some utility that could be blocking port 137?

Get a free port scanning tool like superscan 4 and see if port 137 is open on Danny. If it is, then I am just about out of ideas - sorry. The last thing I would try is disabling the NIC in device manager, reboot, enable the NIC and configure networking again.

You could access a shared folder on his computer by mapping a drive to it. Don't browse to the folder but type in the IP like \\xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx\shared_folder_name. Put everything in double quotes if the folder has spaces in the name. Of course he could copy from a shared folder on your computer also. No need to burn CDs just to get around this.

Please let me know how you make out.


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Response Number 7
Name: Scizzy
Date: May 30, 2005 at 10:12:23 Pacific
Reply:

Ill let you know later today when I try.

Ive tried on mine, to even open up the shared folder within explorer by IP, no avail.

Thanks for the port, I didn't know what port that was... So ill give that a shot, and the IP filtering.

Thanks again,

CHecking back soon,
Scizzy


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