home LAN problem

kaimera

Hey,

stori is as follows...have a pc and a laptop and a crossover cable.

ip addys are the same range 192.168.xxx.xxx
subnet 255.255.255.0

workgroup is the same.

both are running Windows XP Pro with SP1 and relevant updates [pc would have the more recent updates than the laptop]

I can see my laptop on the network from my pc...but I cant see the pc from my laptop.

I can access the laptop etc from the pc but when I run the ip of the pc from the laptop it sez not found.

any ideas?

BigEejit

Built in firewall?.... try disabling it, its in Start -> Settings -> Network Connections
right click on your lan connection and select properties, click on the advanced tab ... thar she blows

Ryaner

I currently have the same setup as that. The way I normaly do it and only way it tends to work is have the ip's one off.
In your range than would be pc at 192.168.10.100
laptop at 192.168.10.101

Subnets the same. The update do cause problems I've noticed. Some of them mask different parts and it all get very messy. It more than likely the xp firewall tho or the settings in simple file sharing on the pc.

kaimera

it's not the firewall anyway. It's disabled on both of them.

I'll re-check the file sharing setup when I get more time.

Ryaner

Easy way to do it is turn off file sharing. Reboot and turn it back on and reboot again. It should set it all back to defaults and sort out the problems if it in the simple settings.

Señor Juárez

make sure filesharing is enabled! then try going to start, run, \\192.168.0.4\ (where that IP address is that of the sharing PC)

Red Alert

turn off simple file sharing

kaimera

sorted lads. thanks.

Ryaner

np

Pataman

Kaimera, what did you do to sort it, I am having similar probs on a friends network. Two computers network ok, but ics will not work. Have swapped both computers (client/host) but still will not work. Have rebooted and run ics more times than I can remember. Both computers set to automatic settings using dchp. Driving me mad..Please help

I am just wondering if it is the cable. I didnt install it nor did I check it. If it was not a crossover cable just a long patch cable would the network still work?

kaimera

it turned out to be that I had the XP firewall still on on one connection.
When i rebooted the next day all was well again in the world of LAN-ing

no need to use dhcp.

assign two ip addy's [even take the two examples above] yourself.
subnet 255.255.255.0

turn off the firewall on each lan connection and enable simple file-sharing on each pc.

make sure both machines are in the same workgroup and then bob's yore uncle...both machines should show up under Network Places/Workgroup Computers.

hope that helps