Home Network Problem

[Jeff Hunt]

Try turning the Internet Connection Firewall off on the
network connection for the desktop. Firewalls are designed
to do exactly what you describe. Allow traffic outbound
but not inbound. Go to the Control Panel and open Network
Connections. Right click on the Local Area Connection for
your ethernet adapter and click on the Advanced tab.
Uncheck the box to turn off ICF and click OK.
>-----Original Message-----
>Hello,
>
>I'm trying to set up a home network with a desktop pc and
>a laptop, with my laptop accessing the internet via my
>desktop pc. Both are running XP Home Service Pack 1a.
>
>I've run the network wizard on both of them everything
>seemed to go fine. However it does not appear to work!
>
>When I try to browse Mshome my desktop pc gives me
>
>'Mshome is not accessible. You might not have permission
>to use this network resource. Contact the administrator
>of this server to find out if you have access
>permissions. The list of servers for this workgroup is
>not currently available.'
>
>My laptop allows me access to its resourses but my
>desktop pc is not listed.
>
>I've tried using fixed addresses ie. 192.168.0.1 for the
>desktop & 192.168.0.2 for the laptop. Now the strange
>thing is that I can ping the laptop from my desktop pc
>and I get a perfect response, but when I try to ping the
>desktop pc from my laptop I get timeouts. I now the data
>is being received by the desktop because I can see the
>received bytes in the status window increasing, it just
>does reply.
>
>I now all the netowrk hardware (cable, nic's & switch) is
>working correctly, because I've used it all with Me.
>
>Can anyone help?
>
>thanks in advance
>thanks
>.
>