Lost Local Network Connections with XP

[Wayne]

I have a local network set up at home. My printer is
connected to one of these computers. The other home
computers can print through the network. These three
machines are Windows 2000. Since I got a new labtop with
Windows XP, my laptop cannot see the local network and the
local network cannot see my laptop.

My laptop can go through the home network router to access
the internet and dial up my work VPN.

When I try to map the printer, I get an error message that
the name of the printer is incorrect or it is not
connected to the network. I was able to map the printer
with my prior labtop which ran Windows 2000. How to set
up XP to use the printer on my home network?

[Ken Wickes [MSFT]]

Can you ping the machine with the printer?

Are you running XP's firewall?

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"Wayne" > wrote in message
...
> I have a local network set up at home. My printer is
> connected to one of these computers. The other home
> computers can print through the network. These three
> machines are Windows 2000. Since I got a new labtop with
> Windows XP, my laptop cannot see the local network and the
> local network cannot see my laptop.
>
> My laptop can go through the home network router to access
> the internet and dial up my work VPN.
>
> When I try to map the printer, I get an error message that
> the name of the printer is incorrect or it is not
> connected to the network. I was able to map the printer
> with my prior labtop which ran Windows 2000. How to set
> up XP to use the printer on my home network?
>
>