XP Home Networking Issues - 3 PC's - SP 1

[Chris_Pierce]

I have 3 pc's with identical hardware specs. All Pentium 4 2.4ghz and Netgear
100mbps ethernet cards connected to each other through a 10/100 hub.
Hard-wired not wireless. All cables have been tested and work.

I can share an internet connection between the computers. But I cannot
access any of the shared files or folders on any of the machines. And none of
the other machines see my pc on the network. But I can see them sometimes.

I have disabled all the firewalls, repaired the IP, set NetBIOS over TCP/IP
and even assigned all the pcs with their own IP addresses - 192.168.0.1, .2,
..3 and so on. And I've run the Network Setup Wizard a billion times and only
get errors or when its completed nothing works.

The error I get when trying to access the workgroup via My Network Places
says that the shared folder/pc is unavailable...depsite being able to share
the net access. And I cannot add the other pc's as a new network place. It
can't find them.

I can't ping any of the other pc's either. I get the "Request Timed Out".
And the net connection sharing goes in and out. Sometimes works and sometimes
doesnt.

If you could, please email me directly with any responses you may have.
email -

Thanks.

Also. They all have Service Pack 1, not 2. 2 will not work on any of the
pc's. It locks them up.

[Martin @ Wirral Youth For Christ]

We have got exactly the same problem, we have got 5 PC's at work all XP Pro,
all SP2. We can share the internet connection but can not share files. As
with you we have run the network setup wizard many times and gone through the
trouble shooter even more times but it still doesnt work. We have turned
firewalls on and off, we have set up new networks with new cables, we have
even screamed at the things and still no file sharing. It is soooo
frustrating. Can anybody out there help

"Chris_Pierce" wrote:

> I have 3 pc's with identical hardware specs. All Pentium 4 2.4ghz and Netgear
> 100mbps ethernet cards connected to each other through a 10/100 hub.
> Hard-wired not wireless. All cables have been tested and work.
>
> I can share an internet connection between the computers. But I cannot
> access any of the shared files or folders on any of the machines. And none of
> the other machines see my pc on the network. But I can see them sometimes.
>
> I have disabled all the firewalls, repaired the IP, set NetBIOS over TCP/IP
> and even assigned all the pcs with their own IP addresses - 192.168.0.1, .2,
> .3 and so on. And I've run the Network Setup Wizard a billion times and only
> get errors or when its completed nothing works.
>
> The error I get when trying to access the workgroup via My Network Places
> says that the shared folder/pc is unavailable...depsite being able to share
> the net access. And I cannot add the other pc's as a new network place. It
> can't find them.
>
> I can't ping any of the other pc's either. I get the "Request Timed Out".
> And the net connection sharing goes in and out. Sometimes works and sometimes
> doesnt.
>
> If you could, please email me directly with any responses you may have.
> email -
>
> Thanks.
>
> Also. They all have Service Pack 1, not 2. 2 will not work on any of the
> pc's. It locks them up.

[Bob Willard]

Martin @ Wirral Youth For Christ wrote:

> We have got exactly the same problem, we have got 5 PC's at work all XP Pro,
> all SP2. We can share the internet connection but can not share files. As
> with you we have run the network setup wizard many times and gone through the
> trouble shooter even more times but it still doesnt work. We have turned
> firewalls on and off, we have set up new networks with new cables, we have
> even screamed at the things and still no file sharing. It is soooo
> frustrating. Can anybody out there help
>
> "Chris_Pierce" wrote:
>
>
>>I have 3 pc's with identical hardware specs. All Pentium 4 2.4ghz and Netgear
>>100mbps ethernet cards connected to each other through a 10/100 hub.
>>Hard-wired not wireless. All cables have been tested and work.
>>
>>I can share an internet connection between the computers. But I cannot
>>access any of the shared files or folders on any of the machines. And none of
>>the other machines see my pc on the network. But I can see them sometimes.
>>
>>I have disabled all the firewalls, repaired the IP, set NetBIOS over TCP/IP
>>and even assigned all the pcs with their own IP addresses - 192.168.0.1, .2,
>>.3 and so on. And I've run the Network Setup Wizard a billion times and only
>>get errors or when its completed nothing works.
>>
>>The error I get when trying to access the workgroup via My Network Places
>>says that the shared folder/pc is unavailable...depsite being able to share
>>the net access. And I cannot add the other pc's as a new network place. It
>>can't find them.
>>
>>I can't ping any of the other pc's either. I get the "Request Timed Out".
>>And the net connection sharing goes in and out. Sometimes works and sometimes
>>doesnt.
>>
>>If you could, please email me directly with any responses you may have.
>>email -
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
>>Also. They all have Service Pack 1, not 2. 2 will not work on any of the
>>pc's. It locks them up.

If all PCs connect to your ISP via a hub or switch (not a router), then the
ISP is assigning IPAs and they are not guaranteed to be in the same IP
subnet. To see what IPAs you have, Run CMD then type IPCONFIG/ALL in the
CMD window. To be in the same IP subnet, all PCs must have the same mask
(typically 255.255.255.0) and, for IPA=a.b.c.d, all must have the same
a.b.c and unique d's. To fix the IP subnet problem (if that's what it is),
replace the hub/switch with a router, enable the router's DHCP service, and
set each PC to be a DHCP client.
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Cheers, Bob