Windows XP network

[Eric]

I seem to be hitting a roadblock here. I've got a business
network that had five Windows XP Home computers.
Everything was fine. Yesterday I introduced two more XP
Home computers into the network. The computers are seen,
yet are unaccessable. Is there a limitation to the number
of Windows XP Home computers that can be in a network and
accessable at a time?

 

[David]

Eric, you need to make sure all the settings are correct
for sharing on the hard drives and files as well as the
computer itself, working a network with XP Home is an
intriguing process. i set one up myself and had lots of
little problems and that was just a direct lan connection
without a hub (my desktop to my laptop). I would also re-
run the automatic network setup again on the other
computers. Also make sure the "logins" of all those
computers is also in a "user" group on the computers. As
for a limit on the amount of computers, i cant tell you.

PS.

If you are using a firewall IE Norton firewall or
something of that kind i would turn off the automatic ip
config and set your own IP's on each computer and make
sure the firewall is set with those IP's, if you have
Norton set the computers up and then just let the firewall
find the other computers through the automatic network
settings.

 

[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

I seem to be hitting a roadblock here. I've got a business
network that had five Windows XP Home computers.
Everything was fine. Yesterday I introduced two more XP
Home computers into the network. The computers are seen,
yet are unaccessable. Is there a limitation to the number
of Windows XP Home computers that can be in a network and
accessable at a time?

There's no limit to the number of computers that can be accessed on a
network.

Run the Network Setup Wizard on the new computers to fully enable file
sharing.

If that doesn't fix everything, please reply to this message in the
news group (not by E-mail) with more information to help other people
understand the problem.

What does "seen, yet are unaccessable" mean? How are you seeing them?
How are you trying to access them? What exactly happens when you do
it? If there's an error message, what does it say?
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Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

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