Erwin Krisch
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Why clients not pinging?
We are using Windows XP Home Edition on one client and Windows XP Professional in another client. We are using a wireless DLink router for our network. Both clients can access the Internet, but they can’t ping each other. The clients have different names and the same workgroup. The router IP Address is 192.68.0.l and the clients are 192.168.0.101 and 192.168.0.102. Both clients can ping the router though.Why are the clients not pinging? Does anybody know what the cause of the problem is and how to fix it?
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turn off the windows firewall completely, its terrible for home networking. Disable is under services.msc and stop it starting
you will need to enable netbios under the advanced properties of tcp/ip WINS tab. enable it then reboot your machines, they should now turn up in my network places
you will need to enable netbios under the advanced properties of tcp/ip WINS tab. enable it then reboot your machines, they should now turn up in my network places
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I can get now one client accessing the folders of the other, but not the way around. When I try with the one that does not work I get the message: "\\Gunter is not acessible. You might not have permissions to use this network resource". What now?
now you are into the joys of home networking with windows xp home! joy!
http://65.24.134.81/KipSolutions/P2PNetworks/TroubleshootingP2P.htm
thats from Fatal_Excpetion and the best troubleshooting site i have from P2P
key here is make sure you have identical accounts on each machine with the same passwords
http://65.24.134.81/KipSolutions/P2PNetworks/TroubleshootingP2P.htm
thats from Fatal_Excpetion and the best troubleshooting site i have from P2P
key here is make sure you have identical accounts on each machine with the same passwords
You're going to laugh, but you will have to turn your firewall completely off for that and ensure that Netbios is enabled over TCP/IP
see url
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;318030
Regards
see url
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;318030
Regards
doggone it; leave for a chat and I'm now behind by a conversation...
:-) no stress
LOL; I just hate saying the same thing 17 minutes after the fact and one conversation late... No worries...
which bit actually resolved for you? you had two issues going here.......
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The initial question was of how to get the clients pinging. ECNSSMT gave me the solution. It worked. Therefore, I gave him the points. The second question was an add-on which has not been solved. I still can't access the folder of one of the clients.
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