Home XP Netwotk. Not able to read files or use printer on other PCs on the network

Jim H · 04-07-2006, 12:47 AM

Hello everyone. A small success story. I have a small wireless home network (two PCs using XP) that I could not get to talk. The machines recognises that the other PCs exisited on the network but that was it. With help from this forum I switched out the third party firewalls (One machine has Norton the other McAffe) and just used the Microsoft XP firewalls. It all works just fine.

I had another problem that the forum did not help me with. I could connect through my router (Belkin 125) to the internet on both machines, but on one machine I could not get the administrator account to connect. All the settings were the same. Eventually I just tried selecting every tick box in the set up dialogue boxes. Nothing worked. I then reset them all to where they were in the first place and "Bingo" I have connection. Don't you just love software?:frog34:

**johnwill** · 04-07-2006, 03:29 PM

That's why they call it computing. You just didn't realize that most of the "computing" was you thinking about all the problems!

04-07-2006, 12:47 AM	#1 (permalink)
Jim H Registered User Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: UK Posts: 2 OS: xp	Home XP Netwotk. Not able to read files or use printer on other PCs on the network Hello everyone. A small success story. I have a small wireless home network (two PCs using XP) that I could not get to talk. The machines recognises that the other PCs exisited on the network but that was it. With help from this forum I switched out the third party firewalls (One machine has Norton the other McAffe) and just used the Microsoft XP firewalls. It all works just fine. I had another problem that the forum did not help me with. I could connect through my router (Belkin 125) to the internet on both machines, but on one machine I could not get the administrator account to connect. All the settings were the same. Eventually I just tried selecting every tick box in the set up dialogue boxes. Nothing worked. I then reset them all to where they were in the first place and "Bingo" I have connection. Don't you just love software?:frog34:

04-07-2006, 03:29 PM	#2 (permalink)
johnwill Manager, Networking Forums Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: S.E. Pennsylvania, US Posts: 41,940 OS: Windows 7, XP-Pro, Vista, Linux Blog Entries: 1	That's why they call it computing. You just didn't realize that most of the "computing" was you thinking about all the problems! __________________ If TSF has helped you, Tell us about it! or Donate to help keep the site up! Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience