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Thread ID: 55050	2005-03-01 09:44:00	TCP/IP issue - very frustrating	nzsp (6931)	Press F1

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329320	2005-03-01 21:53:00	Are you using Norton Internet Security?? The firewall? on the problem PC? If so, instead of using the trusted zone, click on Personal Firewall / Home networking tab and use the wizard, so it adds an ip and subnet mask under the Home networking tab. I would also configure the ip's manually not use XP's network wizard.	Speedy Gonzales (78)
329321	2005-03-02 02:04:00	Speedy, Thanks for the advice. I am using Norton Internet Security on the problem PC and actually had already run the firewall wizard to get the home network into the trusted zone. I will try to have a go at the manual configuration tonight but I am confused as to why that would resolve the problem of not being able to ping the IP of the local computer. What is the difference between getting an automatic IP and specfying one? If I can see what my automatically generated IP is using ipconfig but cannot ping it, why would this be any different with a manually specified IP? Trying hard to increase my knowledge level here! Cheers, Steve	nzsp (6931)
329322	2005-03-02 08:22:00	Progress! It turns out that Norton Internet Security Firewall was the problem after all - thanks big john. By setting the security level of the firewall to low I can now ping my local computer IP and see the network and computers on the network under microsoft windows network. New problem... if I try to look in the shared folders on the network (even on my local PC) I get the error that: "computer name\\folder name is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions. Not enough server storage to process this command" I have set the folders to share on the network. Any ideas on the way forward from here? The "Shared Documents" folder should always be accessible surely? Thanks for your ongoing help - much appreciated EDIT: Problem has miraculously fixed itself through no user intervention. Man, these modern OS's must be good! :D Thanks again.	nzsp (6931)
329323	2005-03-03 09:17:00	Ok we're close now. I can now see the other computer and the shared folders from both PC's. So they are talking to each other OK - I can ping and get replies. However, when I try to access the contents of the shared folders on the other PC I still get the error message from my previous post. Tried switching off all firewalls - no luck. Is there something I need to do with the router settings? Is the router or the other PC the server referred to in the error message? Any ideas? and thanks in advance. Steve EDIT. I was just looking in my router (Nokia M1122) settings and under "routing settings" the Dynamic Routing Protocols for ethernet send and receive are off and there are no static routes. This looks like a problem to me! My choices for Dynamic Routing Protocols are RIP Version1, v1-compdat.v2 and RIP version2. What do I need to change to get the router working. (Its a Telecom rental modem/router so I don't have any documentation and I'm not sure that Telecom support would help me with the routing side of things.)	nzsp (6931)
329324	2005-03-03 09:25:00	I can't find the previous error message you speak of (too tired), so just try this: Go to cmd, and issue the command: net use drive: \\ipaddressofotherpc\sharename password /USER:ipaddressofotherpc\username This maps network drives. So, if you were trying map drive S: to a share called "stuff" on a PC whose IP address was 192.168.0.200, and you were using a user account that was present and enable on the PC you're trying to access called "John", with password "MyPassword123", then you would use, from the PC you're connecting with, the command: net use s: \\192.168.0.200\stuff MyPassword123 /USER:192.168.0.200\John That works when browsing doesn't.	Growly (6)
329325	2005-03-03 09:28:00	Thanks for the reply Growly - I found something in my router settings which I think might be it. See the edit to my last post - any advice gratefully received	nzsp (6931)
329326	2005-03-03 11:52:00	Leave the router, if it was wrong it would not work at all. Have you allowed user rights on both PC's as Growly indicated? that is, in Control Panel > Users & Passwords, set up a user name and password to access each PC. I just use the same user and P/W for both.	Murray P (44)
329327	2005-03-03 20:43:00	Speedy, I will try to have a go at the manual configuration tonight but I am confused as to why that would resolve the problem of not being able to ping the IP of the local computer. What is the difference between getting an automatic IP and specfying one? If I can see what my automatically generated IP is using ipconfig but cannot ping it, why would this be any different with a manually specified IP? Trying hard to increase my knowledge level here! Cheers, Steve The difference between manually entering in an ip and automatic, is if on auto it has a habit of changing the ip everytime u boot/reboot (if u do). And the PC with the automatic ip will disappear from the network. (If u use the XP Network Wizard) If u type the ip address in manually (give it an ip of say 192.168.0.1 etc), it'll stay the same, everytime u reboot the system.	Speedy Gonzales (78)
329328	2005-03-03 23:15:00	Growly/Murray Thanks for the advice - I will leave the router alone. On one PC I have usernames for myself and my wife. On the other I have just a user name for myself (same name on both). No passwords are set for usernames on either PC. The files I am trying to share are under my username (the "my Music" folder). Is there some setting on the username I need to set to allow network access? I thought just allowing the folder to be shared on the network would be enough to have it accessible to other PC's without the other PC needing to know anything about the username/password of the person doing the sharing. Can I use Growly's command without the password flag? Cheers, Steve	nzsp (6931)
329329	2005-03-04 01:25:00	Set a password for your user and use the username and password to log in to the PC over the network when prompted.	Murray P (44)
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