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by david.gray

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Having set up a home network using Win2k I have am trying with XP. The only way I access the other PCs(98 sytems ) was to add their names in the Host file. The only problem is I cannot see the XP machine on the Network Neighbourhood. Is it to do with 'Group Policies'? I did not have any trouble file and printer sharing with 2K.

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by yacco

You need to turn off the firewall in XP. Go to: start, settings, network, lan connection, advanced.

by rlmanges

First of all is your XP machine using an NTFS if so 95 & 98 can't read NTFS.
Also XP provides drivers to load on another machine via floppy.
or XP uses netware IXP protocal to talk to these machines.
one or a couple of the bove shuld solve your problem

by georgyporgy

Check to see what ports are open on the XP machine, maybe you're filtering some tcp, udp ports on the internl adapter

try reinstalling tcp/ip and re-configuring it, i've had the same prob before and this resolved it.

this could also be becausea security policy or a firewall you're running.

that should strir some thoughts

by david.gray

I have no filtering set up nor ports added. Tried with and without filtering turned on, no difference.

by mazlo65

Run the Network Setup Wizard on your XP box, even if you are sure it is already setup correctly. At the end of the Wizard you will have the opportunity to make a Network Setup Disk for the other PCs. Make the disk and run it on all non-XP machines that are connected to your network.

Problem solved.

by mazlo65

BTW- The XP firewall is not active by default. It has to be turned on manually after installing the OS.

by david.gray

I have run the setup wizard several times to no effect. This in fact caused me more headaches. I added the ips manually and then had to add them to the host file before I could access the 98 laptop from the XP machine. Managed to ping both ip andcomputer name until I changed the name of the XP machine because the network diag said there was already this pc name on the system and could be the cause. Now can only ping ip address but not name......!

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