Allan Basso
January 10th 04, 02:20 AM
sounds like XP's firewall is on. Go to the advanced tab of
your network connections properties dialog box and disable
the firewall. XP's firewall won't allow access to the file
system on each of the machines that it is enabled on.
>-----Original Message-----
>Hi, I have a small network all running XP pro machines,
>with 1 of them as the gateway to the internet. 2 of the
>machines can talk to all the other machines, while 2 of
>them can talk to any machines but each other. I have
>tried ping, pathping, tracert, nbtstat all with no
>connection to the other machine. There is no firewall in
>the way of the two. I even tried editing the route table
>to tell the 2 machines where to send the packets to, but
>still with no effect. Have I missed something very
>obvious?
>
>thanks in advance
>
>Andy
>.
>
your network connections properties dialog box and disable
the firewall. XP's firewall won't allow access to the file
system on each of the machines that it is enabled on.
>-----Original Message-----
>Hi, I have a small network all running XP pro machines,
>with 1 of them as the gateway to the internet. 2 of the
>machines can talk to all the other machines, while 2 of
>them can talk to any machines but each other. I have
>tried ping, pathping, tracert, nbtstat all with no
>connection to the other machine. There is no firewall in
>the way of the two. I even tried editing the route table
>to tell the 2 machines where to send the packets to, but
>still with no effect. Have I missed something very
>obvious?
>
>thanks in advance
>
>Andy
>.
>