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I’ve got three systems running Windows 2000 on Ethernet via a 6-port hub. The systems see each other but don’t connect (you can see the computer name, but cannot connect.

I’ve manually configured the TCP/IP addresses and attempted to add a network drive, but even in Administrator cannot configure any of the other networked systems.

The manual TCP/IP addresses are 192.168.0.55 for the first system, 192.168.0.100 for the 2nd and 192.168.0.200 for the third. The subnet addresses are 255.255.255.0 on each. Sharing is turned on for each of the systems and it’s an open network with no restrictions. It just sits there and grins at my foolish efforts.

Where am I going wrong?