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Nevermind, it was the dang McCaffee FireWall. &nbsp;Please Close.
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Nevermind, it was the dang McCaffee FireWall.  Please Close.

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I have two brand new Dell machines running XP that I need to network so they can share files....No internet connection, just those two machines. &nbsp;They are both plugged in via normal Cat5 cables to a little 4-port Netgear hub and I get lights on both machines and both ports on the hub. &nbsp;I disabled the XP firewall on both of them, gave them 192.168.0.x addresses, 255.255.255.0 subnet, joined them both to the &quot;test&quot; workgroup, and they can not ping each other.....I have to be forgetting something basic, I ust can't think of what it is!
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I have two brand new Dell machines running XP that I need to network so they can share files....No internet connection, just those two machines.  They are both plugged in via normal Cat5 cables to a little 4-port Netgear hub and I get lights on both machines and both ports on the hub.  I disabled the XP firewall on both of them, gave them 192.168.0.x addresses, 255.255.255.0 subnet, joined them both to the "test" workgroup, and they can not ping each other.....I have to be forgetting something basic, I ust can't think of what it is!

Two isolated XP machines can not see each other

The Windows operating systems have distinct methodologies for designing and implementing networks, and have specific systems to accomplish various networking processes, such as Exchange for email, Sharepoint for shared files and programs, and IIS for delivery of web pages. Microsoft also produces server technologies for networked database use, security and virtualization.