A7N8X-E Delux and network issues

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I built a new A7N8X-E Delux board with Kingston PC3200 RAM 512x2, Maxtor
120G x2 SATA RAID1, Barton 2500+ to FSB200 and WindowsXP pro SP1a. The
initial install went reasonably well. I have a laptop with Win2K and an old
Compaq running Win98 - set up a small home network with the new computer as
server through a LinkSys wireless router and LinkSys cable modem. Everything
went quite well at first, I was able to configure the network, all computers
could see each other shared drive and all had internet access. The wireless
hub worked fine.

I upgraded the OS via the MS site and loaded OfficeXP, now I cannot for the
life of me get the network to work. I keep getting access denied. I can get
to the internet from the new computer as well as the other two computer so
the basic infrastructure is working. I'm thinking it's a driver issue when I
upgraded the OS. I reloaded the NVIDA drivers but no luck. I've deleted the
network bridge and rerun the network wizard - no luck, I 've double checked
that the workgroups were all the same, yes, I can see the new computer
(maincomputer) from my laptop but clicking it gives me the ". . . computer
is not accessible, network path in not found" dialog box. I'm using the 10mB
port on the new computer but moving to the 100 mB port doesn't help = same
problem.

I'm a bit of a neubie on the network front and probably need to move to
another newsgroup but want to see if anyone else has had this problem with
the ASUS board and WinXP pro first. Anyone have any suggestions - thanks!
 
Do you have to "share" the hard drive?
Or provide access to your NEW computer from another computer on your LAN?
Maybe the upgrade changed the settings and you have to manually reset them
for your hard drive ???
just a thought!
dave
 
John,

Please post back with details on the following:

1.What are the ip addresses of the two machines?
Under Win9x run WinIPConfig to find out.
Under XP run ipconfig /all

2. Can you ping by address each machine from each other?
If you can then it is unlikely to be anything to do with network cards,
drivers, cables, or port speeds.
If you can't then you have a basic Network or IP config problem. Check
cables, cards, drivers, IP config.

3. Can you ping each other by Name?

4. What happens if you try to map a network driver from / to each other?

- Tim
 
Try running the XP Network setup wizard on all the pcs (accessible from the
XP setup cd), could just be that the guest account used for networking has
been disabled, but the XP wizard should smooth everything out, the fact you
can use the shared internet connection etc proves there's no "major"
problem.

HTH
 
OK, network infrastructure is all fine. When I set up a new network from the
WinXP pro disk, everything works just great, I can see the other computers,
can transfer files back and forth, etc. When I reboot the ASUS server, I
cannot access the server anymore and cannot see shared directories from the
server.

Am I going nuts??? Any suggestions?

thanks guys (and gals)

John
 
Well I found the problem . . . it was the Norton Internet Security personal
firewall. When I toggled it off, everything went back to normal. So I guess
I'll be spending some quality time with the Norton manual next few nights.
Thanks for all the suggestions and your patience.

John
 
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