setting up my home network.

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Scott

Everything worked fine when one comp was XP home and one
was ME.

Now, one is still XP home, and we switched our ME computer
to XP Proffesional.

Same workgroup, same settings set in the networking
wizard. Yet - the computers will not recognize
eachother. My XP Pro comp won't even recognize it's own
workgroup! (which is the same as the XP home comp!).

Any Ideas of what's left to do?
 
Greetings Scott,

Ensure all firewalls are removed while troubleshooting. XP's firewall must be disabled on local area networks. It is only intended for direct connections to the Internet. Each machine must have the same workgroup name (MSHOME by default in XP) and a common subnet mask of 255.255.255.0. If the subnet mask it different, they are on different networks.

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Eric

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Everything worked fine when one comp was XP home and one
was ME.

Now, one is still XP home, and we switched our ME computer
to XP Proffesional.

Same workgroup, same settings set in the networking
wizard. Yet - the computers will not recognize
eachother. My XP Pro comp won't even recognize it's own
workgroup! (which is the same as the XP home comp!).

Any Ideas of what's left to do?
 
Right...well presuming the ME computer's fine...log onto the XP pro
computer...

At the bottom right of your screen is there a network icon? 2 wee computer
notifying you the network's enabled? (if not right click on the desktop,
select 'properties', go to 'desktop' tab, select 'customize desktop' and
tick display 'my network places')

Right click on either the icon on the systme tray or the icon on the desktop
and select 'status'then 'properties' or 'properties' respectively.

Now your connection settings will be displayed; right click and do
'properties' on the home netowork icon again. In the middle of a new screen
that'll pop up will be a load of rubbush to yourself, like "client for
microsoft networks, QOS"

What you want to do is make sure the following are ticked:

client for microsoft networks
file and printer sharing for microsoft networks
QOS packet sheduler
internet protocol (tcp/ip)

Now, on the last one - tcp/ip, left click on it, and underneath there's 3
buttons. Select 'properties', then click on 'advanced', it'll be at the
bottom right of the new window that's just popped up. Now go to the 'WINS'
tab and at the bottom make sure 'enable netbios over TCP/IP' has the black
dot beside it, not any of the other ones! Leave LMHOSTS LOOKUP ticked.......

now restart both computers, and try browsing the network... No luck? Then do
the same on the 'ME' computer alhtough the process will be slightly
different...

good luck
 
Hi Scott. This may not be worth a "hill of beans" to you but I will toss it in since it's near Christmas. I was networked with XPhome and WinME. No problems until by virtue of an XP download of Windows Product Activation, I had to reinstall XP.
All settings remained the same on Client machine etc.

After reinstalling XP on Host, I then went through the wizard to reset my network. No matter what I tried...it would not recognize the client. I then had an idea that Host must be done before Client...read that somewhere. Anyway I removed all traces of Networking from both machines, deleted both from both machines, the NIC cards via Device Mgr, and then reset everything back up, beginning with the host. There were no changes made in any of the settings...but once I did this, networking came back alive.

Again, with the client machine still retaining it's settings and I resetup the host, it wouldn't work. After removing everything from both machines and resetting up, beginning with the host, the networking returned. Regards
 
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