XP and Windows 2000 not connecting?

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Tavish Muldoon

Hello,

I have a Windows 2000 SP 3 computer going through a hub/switch from
there another computer is attached a Windows XP Pro computer. (The
hub/switch is connected to a DSL modem - so the W2k machine has
internet access - not important right now.)

The XP computer was from another domain, the W2k computer is from a
workgroup. I want to transfer a file from the W2k machine to the XP
machine. So far no luck.

I did a find computer for the XP one - no sign. So I changed the XP
domain to the same workgroup name as the Windows 2000 machine. Did a
find - now I can see the XP computer.

Try to connect get an error "<Computer name> path is inaccessible" -
but I can see it.

I created a shared folder on the XP machine, enabled the guest account
- still "<Computer name> path is inaccessible".

1) What do I have to do to connect them to transfer a file?

2) The XP computer can be seen by W2k and vice versa - since they are
going through a hub - is there a way to 'ping' each computer (no ip
addresses)?

Thanks much!

Tmuld
 
Tavish Muldoon said:
Hello,

I have a Windows 2000 SP 3 computer going through a hub/switch from
there another computer is attached a Windows XP Pro computer. (The
hub/switch is connected to a DSL modem - so the W2k machine has
internet access - not important right now.)

The XP computer was from another domain, the W2k computer is from a
workgroup. I want to transfer a file from the W2k machine to the XP
machine. So far no luck.

I did a find computer for the XP one - no sign. So I changed the XP
domain to the same workgroup name as the Windows 2000 machine. Did a
find - now I can see the XP computer.

Try to connect get an error "<Computer name> path is inaccessible" -
but I can see it.
Click to expand...

Post the results of *ipconfig /all* of both computers here.
 
Look in the firewall logs to see what traffic is being dropped. You may
first need to configure the firewall to log all traffic for that connection
inbound and outbound. --- Steve
 
Post the results of *ipconfig /all* of both computers here.


Unfortunately, the laptop is not longer available.

The firewalls were turned off.

There was no connection to the internet.

I believe each computers showed an 169.254.xxx.xxx IP
Subnet masks were 255.255.255.xxx

I never did a ping <computer name> - would ping work?

It is interesting it would only show up after changing to the same
work group - each computer could see each other, but no access. "Path
is inaccessible" seems like an odd error.

Thanks,

victor
 
Tavish Muldoon said:
Unfortunately, the laptop is not longer available.

The firewalls were turned off.

There was no connection to the internet.

I believe each computers showed an 169.254.xxx.xxx IP
Subnet masks were 255.255.255.xxx

I never did a ping <computer name> - would ping work?
Click to expand...

Yes, it should work.
It is interesting it would only show up after changing to the same
work group - each computer could see each other, but no access. "Path
is inaccessible" seems like an odd error.
Click to expand...

Make sure that Netbios over TCP/IP is enabled. Also you have an account with
common username and password, and one of the user logged on with that
account.
 
The 169 IP address is the MS default that Windows uses when it is not
receiving an IP address from someplace. It is a place to start looking
for finding of the cause of the problem. It means that your network
card is working but not receiving a signal giving it an IP address.
 
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