Need HELP! with Windows XP Networking

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Steve Winograd - hope you can help here:
I can't get XP networking to work: Have one PC running XP
Home connected to Linksys router/4-port switch; have
second PC running XP Home connected to same Linksys, but
via USB wireless NIC through a Cisco Aironet 340 wireless
access point. Both PCs have no problem accessing the
Internet through the router.
I can ping from the wireless PC to the first PC, but
can't ping in reverse direction. First PC has IP address
192.168.1.100; wireless PC has IP address of
192.168.200.3. I have disabled firewall on both, and
have enabled NetBIOS over TCP/IP on both. Note Type on
both is 'Hybrid.' I've used networking Wizard to set
both up, creating setup disk on one to set up the other
(have done this in 'both directions' - ie creating setup
disk on first PC and loading on second PC, then creating
setup disk on second PC and loading on first --- same
result. I have even tried the setup two different ways -
as a gateway and as 'Other' with network hub). I have
set up resources on both PCs to be 'Share'.
Neither PC shows other PC's shared folders or printer.
Can somebody help?
Many many Thanks in Advance,
Pat
 
Check your subnet mask if it is 255.255.255.0 then you
need to either change it to 255.255.0.0 or change the ip
address on one of the nics to match the first 3 octets.
 
Thanks a lot, Mitch.
Subnet mask on both PCs is 255.255.255.0. Both PCs get
IP addresses via DHCP. I'm guessing the first PC gets it
from the Linksys switch, the wireless PC from the
wireless AP, hence the difference in their address
octets. I'm clueless when it comes to IP addressing.
Can I simply manually change the subnet mask on each PC,
as you indicate, without it hosing up other things? If
so, how do I change it?
Thanks again,
Pat
 
I manually changed subnet mask to 255.255.0.0 and set IP
addresses and default gateways on each PC to be identical
to what they were before - and could no longer get to
Internet from either PC. So I've gone back to dynamic
IP/mask/default gateway settings that I had originally.
What now?
 
Ip address's should not be identical. Try setting the ip
address's manualy to the 192.168.1.? the ? means any
number between 1 and 254 Excluding your router IP. Your
router IP is your gateway. Then set your subnet to
255.255.255.0 This should get you up and running.

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