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236996 2004-05-16 11:21:00 hi all,

well things have been going quite well until today. Here's the set up...

Laptop connected to Internet: IP 192.168.0.1 - Desktop and Printer:IP 192.168.02.

ICS and printing working on both,
File sharing access on Laptop from Desktop
No sharing on Desktop from Laptop - "Network path not found"
Ping from Laptop to Desktop - no ping from D/t to Laptop

What is going on...I am completely flummoxed...obviously D/Top is not 'seeing' Laptop!!! But how come everything else works, can somone explain this to me????

Also when one has a problem like this how do you troubleshoot it?? I know its not a physical prob and neither is it a tcp/ip prob ( my thinking here is that i have ICS, so it can't be....but I've been wrong before :)) and from there I am stuck...

I'm off to carry on googling..... again!!!!

thnx
dibbly
p.s. Network Saga Pt I is here
dibbly (5461)
236997 2004-05-16 11:42:00 >Laptop connected to Internet: IP 192.168.0.1 - Desktop and Printer:IP 192.168.02.
Sorry but your desktop and printer can not share the same IP number.
Have you shared your Laptop.
mikebartnz (21)
236998 2004-05-16 12:00:00 mike
I think he/she is saying that the printer is attached to the desktop (sharing the printer)
workgroup membership might also be worth checking also
beama (111)
236999 2004-05-16 12:09:00 > Sorry but your desktop and printer can not share the
> same IP number.
Laptop connected to Internet: IP 192.168.0.1 - Desktop:IP 192.168.02. connected to Printer - as far as I knew the printer is just a part of "the network"

> Have you shared your Laptop.

yes, I have, everything is showing up in NW places- just when I go to access them i get the error message
dibbly (5461)
237000 2004-05-17 04:49:00 I'm sure you meant 192.168.0.2 not 192.168.02 . :D Not the same.

Have you got the Guest user enabled in XP on the laptop? XP is fussier about users than W98. Though ping ought to work anyway. It's not at the OS level -- it's part of TCP/IP.
Graham L (2)
237001 2004-05-17 06:42:00 Is there a firewall on either machine? That always stumps us networking gurus. ;) Growly (6)
237002 2004-05-17 12:33:00 Yeah that has caught me a couple of times. mikebartnz (21)
237003 2004-05-18 23:01:00 hi everyone,

i'm still stuck here and can't figure why it should "stop sharing" all of a sudden.

I can still share from one machine to the other but not the other way round.
The one that I cannot share from, can use the other ones internet connection...weird.

Both machines firewalled - have tried turning both off to no avail.

Any other suggestions???

cheers
Donna
dibbly (5461)
237004 2004-05-18 23:05:00 > I'm sure you meant 192 . 168 . 0 . 2 not 192 . 168 . 02
> . :D Not the same .
sorry, typo . . . .
>
> Have you got the Guest user enabled in XP on the
> laptop?

No, have never had this account enabled - I go into User Accounts to enable this???

cheers
dibbly (5461)
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