Network Problems

Bubba

There are 3 computers on the LAN at home. One which is connected to the broadband connection and the others connect to it through a hub. Now everything is fine, all computers are able to access the internet fine. But my problem is that in 'network places', i'm not able to see the other computers. When i click on 'view workgroup computers' nothing is there?? why is that?
I want to share files from one computer to another thats why i want this fixed and too be able to see and access the other computers. Can anyone help?
Thanks

gordonnet

do they have the same workgroup name?,

can you ping each pc from another?

Bubba

gordonnet wrote:

do they have the same workgroup name?,

can you ping each pc from another?

Yeah they all have the same workgroup name.

How do i ping each PC again?

moridin

start - run - cmd (assuming it's xp/2k)
ping machinename
ping ip-address

check that it can do both

Webmonkey

I don't know but sometimes i have this problem. If you type the ip address in the address bar with a \\ before it. eg \\192.168.0.3
Try that, you can always place shortcuts on the desktops if it gets annoying. Could be a temporary solution?

Bubba

yeah i can't ping either of the 2 other pc's either. this is really annoying? any other ideas? i'll try the address bar thing now

that dosn't work either

Capt'n Midnight

Firewalls block pings and file sharing.

If you aren't behind a hardware firewall then you must leave a firewall running on windows. You could try an ftp program to share files.

workgroups are a real pain sometimes, like nothing visible if nothing shared or if no machine is the master browser or if they continually fight over who is the master browser ( windows 95 used to think it ranked higher than servers :rolleyes: ) again if you haven't shared anything then there won't be anything to see, but use an ftp program instead to be on the safe side.

try
ping 192.168.0.255 ( the first three numbers of your network and .255)
arp -a

seamus

What are the IP addresses & Subnet maks of the three machines and the internal IP of your router?

Webmonkey

^ Yes. Can you list these. Perhaps they are out of range or such but then again they all communicate with the router. Probably is a firewall issue

Bubba

Yeah well i'm running 'ZoneAlarm' on my machine and one other one. The 3rd one i think is running Nortan Firewall. Could this be a problem?

Webmonkey

Easy to know, disable them both and see if you can network then

Bubba

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

Firewalls block pings and file sharing.

If you aren't behind a hardware firewall then you must leave a firewall running on windows. You could try an ftp program to share files.

workgroups are a real pain sometimes, like nothing visible if nothing shared or if no machine is the master browser or if they continually fight over who is the master browser ( windows 95 used to think it ranked higher than servers :rolleyes: ) again if you haven't shared anything then there won't be anything to see, but use an ftp program instead to be on the safe side.

try
ping 192.168.0.255 ( the first three numbers of your network and .255)
arp -a

How does a ftp program work? ive never used one.

Webmonkey

First of all have you tried disabling both firewalls. This will count out firewalls. Do this before going into unnecessary troubleshooting