[omnipitus]

I have 2 computers 1 running ME and 1 running XP professional. I am trting to network both of them through a hub. The problem is that the ME machine can see the XP machine and I can map drives and move files back and forth, but when I connect to the ME machine in XP after a few minutes I get this error message "\\servername\share drive is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource." But I was just able to connect. I also noticed that when I get this error I can no longer ping the ME computer. I have changed the Hub and NIC. I have also turned on Netbios through TCP/IP. I am using the same username and password on both machines. I have also tried assigning static ip's with the XP box at 192.168.0.1 and ME at 192.168.0.2. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

 

[davidw333]

I also had this problem while running 3 computers on XP through a hub. First you gotta make sure you activate the network connection in windows XP. Then if you already did that and there is still a problem, you would have to disable the built-in firewall of XP. Then things should be fine.

 

[omnipitus]

I've checked to make sure the connection was active and it is...and the firewall has been disabled. Unfortunatly I am still having the problem

 

[Adnan Asmat]

Normaly it does,nt happen like the way you are saying...try one thng more...
Put static IP on XP machine and add a workgroup name and dynamic IP on ME machine and add the same workgroup name that you had put in xp machine..and check in ME machine whether is DHCP is enabled or not in its IP setting and add the
i hope it will resolve your problem