XP Networking issue??

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Recently added 2 XPPRO boxes to the network. (This is my first real exposure
to XP) This seemed to go off without a hitch and both boxes can access
shares on the server as they are supposed to. Their internet connection is
funciontal and Outlook works fine. However, both of these boxes need to be
able to access certain folders on each other. As it stands now the shares on
both XP PRO boxes are accessible from other workstations (NT and W2K) but
neither XP workstation can access the other XP workstation. I have gone over
the permissions for the shares and they are fine as far as I can tell. This
is my first exposure to XP and while I thought I might have a hard time
getting XP to join our SBS domain I didn't think I would have difficulty
with 2 XP boxes accessing shares on each other.

I can't help thinking I am missing something real simple here...does anyone
have any ideas??

Any help would be appreciated

TIA
Bryan
 
Recently added 2 XPPRO boxes to the network. (This is my first real
exposure
to XP) This seemed to go off without a hitch and both boxes can access
shares on the server as they are supposed to. Their internet connection is
funciontal and Outlook works fine. However, both of these boxes need to be
able to access certain folders on each other. As it stands now the shares on
both XP PRO boxes are accessible from other workstations (NT and W2K) but
neither XP workstation can access the other XP workstation. I have gone over
the permissions for the shares and they are fine as far as I can tell. This
is my first exposure to XP and while I thought I might have a hard time
getting XP to join our SBS domain I didn't think I would have difficulty
with 2 XP boxes accessing shares on each other.

I can't help thinking I am missing something real simple here...does anyone
have any ideas??
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Just wondering that is your ICF (Firewall) turned ON or OFF for network
connections in XP?
 
Before you do anything, you should be able to run (in
command mode):
net view \\machine_name

If you error out you may have a subnet issue.

If you are doing simple peer-to-peer, be sure both
machines are in the same workgroup. If the machines are
not in the same workgroup, try to create a login on the
XP with the name of the other machine (you can always
delete it).

Be sure you have enabled file sharing on the XP's.

good luck ....
 
The ICF is OFF on both machines.
I am able to do a NETVIEW from both machines resulting in no errors on
either.
I am able to access either machine from other stations but not from each
other.
Both these boxes are identical in hardware with both being only about a week
old.
One error I do get is NETWORK PATH NOT FOUND. IN the past whenever I get
this error I have found it more often to be hardware related, however
because I can access both these boxes across the network from NT or W2K
stations, and because both these stations can access other stations, just
not each other, I aam leaning more towards a sfotware problem.

THanks for the suggestions.....any others??

TIA
Bryan
 
Bryan,

There are few steps you should try:
1) Ping both machines by IP address (XP machine A to XP machine B, B to A)
and confirm network connectivity
2) Ping both machines using their computer names (can discover using
"hostname")
3) Try telneting to port 445 from one machine to another, and vice versa:
"telnet machinename 445" you will not get a visible response the screen will
go black indicating TCP/IP connectivity
4) Net use to computer name (You already did this, but it is good to confirm
this step):
net use \\machinename\IPC$ "" /user:"" 5) Net use to the share:
net use \\machinename\sharepath /user:yourdomain\username
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If you hit an error in any of those steps the error should tell you what
broke.

Good luck,

Ben
 
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