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Londell - 27 Jan 2005 04:48 GMT

I am having a problem and I hope someone can help. I was setting up my
friends home network. This is what my network is setup as.

1. Toshiba laptop running WINXP Home with wireless card built into it
2. Dell laptop running Windows 2000 Pro with a Belkin 802.11g wirless card.
3. I also have a Pc Running Win 2000 Pro with a linksys ethernet card on the
mother board.

All three are connected to a Belknin 80211g wireless router. the pc and the
Dell laptop which both are running 2000 Pro have a default network name
WORKGROUP. I have a internet connection on all both laptops and on the pc.
However I am not able to connect to each pc on the network. When ever I try
to connect to the other pc or laptop I get the following :On the Pc and
laptop running 2000 pro I get an error message that says "Network path not
found" and on the laptop running Winxp Home I get "Not accessible. Check to
make sure you have permissions to use this resource"

The thing is. I have this same exact wireless router and wirelss card setup
in my home. The only difference is I have 2 pcs and one laptop. 1 Pc is
running Winxp Home and the other is running Win 2000 Pro. the laptop is
running Win 2000 Pro. And all of my pc and laptop van see each other. I can
acces files and printers and everything. Does anyone have any suggestions as
to what I might be missing

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Malke - 27 Jan 2005 13:26 GMT

> I am having a problem and I hope someone can help. I was setting up my
> friends home network. This is what my network is setup as.
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> each other. I can acces files and printers and everything. Does anyone
> have any suggestions as to what I might be missing

Things to check:

1. Did you make identical user accounts and passwords on all three
machines? You need to do this in a mixed-os workgroup network.

2. Did you share out desired resources, making sure permissions are
correct?

3. Did you configure all firewalls to allow lan traffic as Trusted? If
your XP Home machine has Service Pack 2, SP2 automatically enables the
Windows Firewall. If you are not running a third-party firewall, go to
the Windows Firewall applet in Control Panel and enable File & Printer
Sharing on the Exceptions tab. If you are using a third-party firewall
(and have properly configured it to allow your lan traffic as Trusted),
then turn the Windows Firewall off. You don't want two firewalls
running, and a third-party program will be better than the WF.

Here is a link to an excellent network troubleshooter by MVP Hans-Georg
Michna. Run through it and then if you need more help, post the
results.

http://www.michna.com/kb/wxnet.htm

Malke

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Londell - 28 Jan 2005 04:59 GMT

After reading the newsgroup and seeing so many people with the similar
problmem, I got half the problem solved. Apparently Firewalls will block
computers from connecting to a network.What I did was put the IP of all the
computers into the firewall settings to "trust" the IP connections to
connect and that worked. I was able to setup file and print sharing on he
2000 pro laptop. However the wireless xp laptop still does not see the 2000
pro wireless laptop and it still can not connect to the pc running 2000 pro.
I get the same error message about not having permission to access the
computer. Also the 2000 pro desktop still does not see the 2000 pro laptop.
Can anyone get me to the next step?

> > I am having a problem and I hope someone can help. I was setting up my
> > friends home network. This is what my network is setup as.
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Malke - 28 Jan 2005 13:15 GMT

> After reading the newsgroup and seeing so many people with the similar
> problmem, I got half the problem solved. Apparently Firewalls will
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> permission to access the computer. Also the 2000 pro desktop still
> does not see the 2000 pro laptop. Can anyone get me to the next step?

Did you do the other things I suggested?

>> 1. Did you make identical user accounts and passwords on all three
>> machines? You need to do this in a mixed-os workgroup network.
>>
>> 2. Did you share out desired resources, making sure permissions are
>> correct?

>> Here is a link to an excellent network troubleshooter by MVP
>> Hans-Georg Michna. Run through it and then if you need more help,
>> post the results.
>>
>> http://www.michna.com/kb/wxnet.htm

What were the results of the troubleshooter?

Malke

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Londell - 28 Jan 2005 21:18 GMT

Unfortunatley I couldn't create account on the Xp laptop as it is part of
his business network as well as him using at home. Te 200 Pro laptop and
desktop each have identical user accounts. After doing more research I see
that Anti Virus software could also be causing the network form connecting.
I am going to try disabling that over the weekend and see what happens.

>> After reading the newsgroup and seeing so many people with the similar
>> problmem, I got half the problem solved. Apparently Firewalls will
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> Malke

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Malke - 29 Jan 2005 14:36 GMT

> Unfortunatley I couldn't create account on the Xp laptop as it is part
> of his business network as well as him using at home. Te 200 Pro
> laptop and desktop each have identical user accounts. After doing more
> research I see that Anti Virus software could also be causing the
> network form connecting. I am going to try disabling that over the
> weekend and see what happens.

An antivirus program should have no effect on networking unless it also
contains a firewall. In that case, configure the firewall correctly.
Disabling an antivirus program is foolish and dangerous.

Since your friend's laptop is part of a business domain, here is he can
connect to a home network's resources while not messing up the domain
settings:

from MVP Lanwench:

Note - you don't need to change to a workgroup just to access resources
on it. You shouldn't play with your laptop's network settings at all.
Once you've logged in using your domain account (using cached
credentials), and have an IP address on the home network, you can map
drives, use printers, whatnot, very easily - one way, in a command
line:

net use x: \\computername\sharename /user:computername\username <enter>

Malke

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