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| Thread ID: 53701 | 2005-01-25 00:13:00 | A simple network problem? | Christopher Washer (6975) | Press F1 |
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| 317717 | 2005-01-25 00:13:00 | Hello, I'm having problems networking my dad's computer (let's call it the host) with my own. I suppose I should mention it is a mac running OSX panther, but the problem is the sam regardless of the machine I try to connect with. The Host is running XP SP2, i believe. It has a VPN with my dads work, which I guess may be part of the problem. Basically, I want to be able to share files and our internet connection. I am able to SEE the host from the client under some circumstances, but I can only ping the client computer. It is acting a bit like it has a firewall, even though I have turned off every firewall I can find. The Windows one, Zone alarm, the firewall on the modem. (its a Dynalink ADSL router, by the way), but to no avail. I have shared internet connections with the host machine before, so something must have changed. At the moment it wont let the client do anything. Help would be much appreciated! - Chris |
Christopher Washer (6975) | ||
| 317718 | 2005-01-25 01:11:00 | Did it stop working after SP2 was installed? SP2 has more strict security defaults . I take it that your computer is the Mac; your father's is the PC with XP . There must be a valid account on the XP for the client . The Guest one might be disabled by default when SP2 is installed . I don't know . But it will be something simple like that . Most network problems are . ;) It's just that there's such a wide spectrum of things which can be wrong, and any one can stop a network working . |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 317719 | 2005-01-26 04:15:00 | Hello, I'm having problems networking my dad's computer (let's call it the host) with my own. I suppose I should mention it is a mac running OSX panther, but the problem is the sam regardless of the machine I try to connect with. The Host is running XP SP2, i believe. It has a VPN with my dads work, which I guess may be part of the problem. Basically, I want to be able to share files and our internet connection. I am able to SEE the host from the client under some circumstances, but I can only ping the client computer. It is acting a bit like it has a firewall, even though I have turned off every firewall I can find. The Windows one, Zone alarm, the firewall on the modem. (its a Dynalink ADSL router, by the way), but to no avail. I have shared internet connections with the host machine before, so something must have changed. At the moment it wont let the client do anything. Help would be much appreciated! - Chris What is the IP address of the 'host'? and of your computer? What is the IP address of the ADSL Router? Do you have shared files enabled on the windows machine? Can you ping the Router? Can you ping outside the router? (i.e 'ping www.pressf1.co.nz'?) |
Dragonslayer (512) | ||
| 317720 | 2005-01-26 04:56:00 | I had a similar problem here last week only in my case it was two windows machines. XP machine connects to the Internet Win98 is networked, could see the XP machine, pinged the XP machine OK and could FTP to a website but Internet Explorer came up "Page Not Found" The Answer was: Network setting TCP/IP properties Enable Gateway, DNS and Wins Configuration and set the IP addresses for each to the host machine (in my case 192.168.0.1) Not, at this stage, having a proxy under the internet options connection I set the thing to "automatically detect settings" and "ensure use a proxy server" is off. It worked. How you translate this to a Mac is beyond me but this worked in Windows. |
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