I’ve got an XP Home pc and an XP Pro pc linked by a home workgroup. When running the network setup wizard I made the Home pc the primary and the Pro pc the secondary. I’ve shared the My Documents folder on both PCs for easy access to these folders and I’ve also shared a printer which is connected to the XP Home pc.
My problems are as follows. When I go to My Network Places on the Home pc I can see and access the shared My Docs folder from the Pro machine, but when I go to View Workgroup Computers I only see the one I’m on.
Conversely, when I’m on the Pro machine I can’t see the shared My Docs folder from the Home pc but I can see both PCs when I click View Workgroup Computers. However when I try to open the Home PCs icon I’m told I can’t access it because the network path was not found.
I’ve observed that I can ping the Pro machine (both by IP address and Computer Name) from the Home machine, but when I try pinging the Home PC from the Pro I have success with the IP address but a message that says “Ping request could not find host …..” when trying to ping the computer name.
Also when trying to install the printer on the Pro pc the install wizard can find the workgroup but not the printer.
I hope someone can help because it’s got me beat.
Thanks