tangerine

lo all,

Currently setup (and working) is an XP Home (SP1) Machine which connects to the internet, a 98 SE machine, and ME machine, all connected via a switch and working fine with all network machines. Except for the ME machine but I'm not bothered about that.

However I am having a real problem with connecting an XP Home (SP1) laptop to the network. Currently it is connected and can be pinged via IP address, and it can share files with the other computers by using the "\\IP address" format in run. However it is impossible to communicate with the other machines via the name format, nor will it appear in my network places on the other machines, and it won't show any of the other machines under it's network places, it also won't connect to the internet.

I have tried diabling firewalls etc. aswell as many troubleshooters but I really am having trouble getting this to work.


Cheers for any advice