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| Thread ID: 68807 | 2006-05-11 11:38:00 | Networking win2000/XP PCs | awdw (10388) | Press F1 |
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| 454155 | 2006-05-11 11:38:00 | I have a small home network based on a Dynalink wireless router. It works perfectly in all aspects but one. That is I cannot see the files on the XPHome machine from the 2000 machine, I simply get the message " PCname" not accessible, Access Denied. I can get on the net from both machines and the XP machine accesses the 2000 machine fine. I have identical logon names and passwords on both machines. I have Windows firewall turned off and I am running Nortons Internet Security 2006 with most everything on. I have searched high and low for a setting on the XPHome machine which may be stopping access but can find nothing. The XP machine is connected by cable to the router. The 2000 machine has a wireless card. i cannot find any problem with the Router settings either. Can anybody help? |
awdw (10388) | ||
| 454156 | 2006-05-11 18:59:00 | try it with norton briefly turned off...... | drcspy (146) | ||
| 454157 | 2006-05-11 23:37:00 | As drcspy has implicated, the cause of a lot of network problems is the firewall. Go through the settings and ensure that Nortons is set up for file sharing, etc. Also, have you ensured that you have enabled a shared folder in WinXP? |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 454158 | 2006-05-12 00:22:00 | It might be the Micrososft network settings. The W2K might be in the workgroup "WORKGROUP", and I believe XP uses a different name. :D | Graham L (2) | ||
| 454159 | 2006-05-12 04:38:00 | I think WinXP uses WORKGROUP as well, Graham. Win 9.x uses MSHOME. Or maybe it's the other way around. :p |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 454160 | 2006-05-12 04:56:00 | I think WinXP uses WORKGROUP as well, Graham . Win 9 . x uses MSHOME . Or maybe it's the other way around . :pQuite right, as always, Susan . It's the other way around . :thumbs: Win2000 and 9 . x WORKGROUP; WinXP MSHOME (or MSHOME . NET sometimes?) |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 454161 | 2006-05-13 11:02:00 | Tried that no luck | awdw (10388) | ||
| 454162 | 2006-05-13 11:38:00 | try it with norton briefly turned off...... I tried that and no change. |
awdw (10388) | ||
| 454163 | 2006-05-13 11:40:00 | As drcspy has implicated, the cause of a lot of network problems is the firewall. Go through the settings and ensure that Nortons is set up for file sharing, etc. Also, have you ensured that you have enabled a shared folder in WinXP? Thanks for that Nortons was not set up for file sharing. I enabled that but still no luck. Yes I definitely have shared folders on the XP machine. |
awdw (10388) | ||
| 454164 | 2006-05-13 11:42:00 | It might be the Micrososft network settings. The W2K might be in the workgroup "WORKGROUP", and I believe XP uses a different name. :D I am using a uniquely named workgroup (neither mshome nor workgroup). As te XP machine is accessing the 2000 machine OK the I think that part is OK. |
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