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230236 2004-04-29 22:31:00 One other question while I remember. The host PC is part of a workgroup called teepee (don't ask). PC3 is also in that workgroup. However, for some reason PC2 sits in a workgroup called, strangely enough, workgroup. Even Kevin thinks that's a bit odd, but as he hasn't had time to get back to addressing the networking issue, we haven't really looked into that as a possible cause of some (or all?) of the problems. What do you clever people think? karent (5222)
230237 2004-04-29 22:50:00 All PC's must be in the same workgroup.

Rename the "workgroup" one to "teepee", as "workgroup" is just the default MS allocated name.

And I won't ask....
godfather (25)
230238 2004-04-29 22:52:00 they all must have the same workgroup name. Possibly the cause of most of your problems!

I won't ask, either ;)
Jester (13)
230239 2004-04-29 23:06:00 Will we end up with two teepees, or will one over-write the other? :) karent (5222)
230240 2004-04-29 23:11:00 you should have 3 teepee's .

A nice little camp fire

And some horses contentedly sitting nearby .

Think of "teepee" as the village that all your computers sit in, so their address is 'teepee' . Each computer has its own individual name, but they all live in the teepee village .

So that when they need to communicate with each other, they know to look in their village, rather than looking to the next village, called "workgroup" - where, the dastardly cowboy Wild Bill Gates lives . They don't want to go there .

J
:D
Jester (13)
230241 2004-04-29 23:20:00 On your desktop, on each PC, right click the ' My Computer ' icon, then select the 'Computer Name' tab , then click the 'Change' button.

Chnage the computer name and workgroup as shown in the attached image.

J
:D

sal.neoburn.net
Jester (13)
230242 2004-04-30 00:16:00 As a matter of interest how come my computer name dialogue box is different to yours Jester? Mine doesn't have a domain name as an option. Thats with XP home - is yours XP pro? ?:|
sal.neoburn.net
Fire-and-Ice (3910)
230243 2004-04-30 00:20:00 PS You forgot the bag of marshmellows to toast on the campfire while we all sit outside the teepees discussing this problem. :D Fire-and-Ice (3910)
230244 2004-04-30 00:22:00 Mine is XP Pro, yes. I have never entered anything in the Domain name part though, :)

J aka Big Chief Running Water (heavy rain and floods here :( )
Jester (13)
230245 2004-04-30 01:34:00 Xp home cannot be part of a domain.
and yes all pc's must be in the same workgroup (or village)
good one Jester lol. :^O :^O

I don't think that will be all your problems as you should still be able to ping the router's ip address 192.168.0.1 but I'll keep my fingers crossed
tech_meister (5509)
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