Home network with Win2000 and XP

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Jean

I've got just a simple workgroup set up and working at
home with a 2000 and XP machine, sharing files, a printer,
and the cable modem for internet access. Now I'm trying to
add my husbands laptop with 2000 on it, shouldn't be a
problem. He can get on the internet without a problem, but
can't access the workgroup. When you go into explorer you
see the workgroup name, but when you open it all it sees
is itself. My husband works for IBM and it is preloaded
with alot of stuff, I did find a firewall under properties
for the network connection and disabled that. I also
disabled and enabled the LAN. Any ideas?
 
at work this laptop belongs to a network.
therefore he has different credentials than your other pc's in your
workgroup.

if you dont need that laptop at work anymore and want to keep it at home
then you can disjoin the domain and make it part of the same workgroup.

other than that if you need to just access some files on the home workgroup
then map networkdrive from the laptop to the workgroup and click RUN AS
DIFFERENT USER and enter credentials IE server/username of the share you
are tryinjg to access



shiva
 
I am trying to network just your situation - a computer
that uses Windows XP and one that uses Windows 2000.
When I ran the Network Setup Disk created under XP and
tried to execute it in W2000, it says W2000 cannot use
network setup wizard. How did you get these two
computers linked in the first place. My two already
share an internet connection through Linksys. Any help
would be appreciated. Thank you.
 
you need an identical workgroup name on both computers. you also will need
at least one identical user account (username/password) on both machines.
also, you should not use blank passwords - by default, blank passwords will
not work over the network, only for local logons unless you change a
security setting. if you would like to keep blank passwords, then let me
know and i will show you how to change the security setting that will allow
this.

Dan
 
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