mc said this on 1/25/2009 7:59 AM:
I am trying to set up an xphome and an xpmedia computers on a simple switch
for file and print sharing. I can ping the xpmedia from xphome but I can not
ping from xpmedia to xphome. How do I get these to connect?
thanks mc
I usually find that the firewalls on PC's are my worst offender. Do
you have them turned off on both?
Obviously if not, then do. Then turn on one at a time till you find
out which is doing it and somehow adjust the firewall.
I've got 2 XP and 1 MCE machine and other than having to add file and
print sharing to the machines they work right out of the box. I do
make a "share" folder and share it for read/write too. But that's just
me.
And by fix firewall, I add an entry to tell the firewall that any device
in the 192.168.1.2 to 192.168.1.255 range is allowed traffic (my
internal IP network range). PS. I'm not using windows firewall so I'm
not sure how its done in XP.
