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From: JungleJim74 on 16 Jan 2010 15:38 I thought that I had made this posting several days ago but I cannot find it now. Dunno what happened to it. I have two PCs and both use Windows XP Professional SP3 on PC1 and SP2 on PC2. After I setup the LAN on both machines, PC1 recognizes PC2 but PC2 does not recognize PC1 even tho both have the same workgroup name. PC2 does not even list the "My Network Places" on the Start Menu. Any suggestions? TIA -- JungleJim74
From: Jack [MVP-Networking] on 17 Jan 2010 12:04
Hi Hi Make sure that the Software Firewall on each computer allows free local traffic. If you use 3rd party Firewall On, Vista/XP Native Firewall should be Off, and the active Firewall has to adjusted to your Network IP numbers on what is some time called the Trusted Zone (consult your 3rd Party Firewall instructions. General example, http://www.ezlan.net/faq#trusted Windows XP File Sharing - http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;304040 Printer Sharing XP -http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/expert/honeycutt_july2.mspx Windows Native Firewall setting for Sharing XP -http://support.microsoft.com/kb/875357 When done hard reboot all network computers and the Router. Jack (MS, MVP-Networking). "JungleJim74" <jimrichards74(a)att.net(donotspam)> wrote in message news:EC3F8F21-5594-4552-80F5-A74877A7BA70(a)microsoft.com... >I thought that I had made this posting several days ago but I cannot find >it > now. Dunno what happened to it. > I have two PCs and both use Windows XP Professional SP3 on PC1 and SP2 on > PC2. After I setup the LAN on both machines, PC1 recognizes PC2 but PC2 > does > not recognize PC1 even tho both have the same workgroup name. PC2 does not > even list the "My Network Places" on the Start Menu. Any suggestions? TIA > > -- > JungleJim74 |