XP Home Networking

I have two systems running on XP Home wired through a
router and everything works except I can't connect to
computer2 from computer1. Computer1 acts as the DHCP
server and internet DSL gateway and is fully accessible
from computer2 (file & printer sharing enabled on both
sytems). If I go to network neighborhood from computer1 I
see computer2 but if I click on it I get a "path not
found" error and can't access the hard drive on
computer2. I have gone through the whole network
troubleshooter and turned up nothing wrong. Any
suggestions??

On Thu, 8 Apr 2004 14:38:43 -0700, "Rob"
wrote:

I have two systems running on XP Home wired through a
router and everything works except I can't connect to
computer2 from computer1. Computer1 acts as the DHCP
server and internet DSL gateway and is fully accessible
from computer2 (file & printer sharing enabled on both
sytems). If I go to network neighborhood from computer1 I
see computer2 but if I click on it I get a "path not
found" error and can't access the hard drive on
computer2. I have gone through the whole network
troubleshooter and turned up nothing wrong. Any
suggestions??

Rob,

Any software firewalls (ICF or third party) on either computer? Ever?

From each computer:
1) Ping the other by name.
2) Ping the other by ip address.
3) Ping itself by name.
4) Ping itself by ip address.
5) Ping 127.0.0.1.
6) Ping 192.168.2.1 (router).
Report success / failure of each of 12 pings.

Please provide ipconfig information for each computer.
Start - Run - "ipconfig /all c:\ipconfig.txt" - Open c:\ipconfig.txt in
Notepad, copy and paste into your next post.

Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.