I can see you (XP/NT4)

3 Feb 2009 8:36 PM

Pat Glenn

Does anybody know of the whereabouts of a good tutorial for networking?

I am trying to connect an older NT4 machine to my XP home machine.

* They can ping each other.
* I have identical logins on both machines.
* I can see the XP maxhine in the NT explorer. But I can't see the NT
machine from the XP unit.
* I am running the standard XP firewall (I suspect the problem may be rooted
here)

Any ideas where to start?

3 Feb 2009 9:26 PM

ANONYMOUS

The starting point should be to tell us how you are trying to connect
the two and whether you are using DHCP or fixed IP address.

hth

Pat Glenn wrote:

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>Does anybody know of the whereabouts of a good tutorial for networking?
>
>I am trying to connect an older NT4 machine to my XP home machine.
>
>* They can ping each other.
>* I have identical logins on both machines.
>* I can see the XP maxhine in the NT explorer. But I can't see the NT
>machine from the XP unit.
>* I am running the standard XP firewall (I suspect the problem may be rooted
>here)
>
>Any ideas where to start?
>
>
>
>

7 Feb 2009 2:14 AM

Pat Glenn

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> The starting point should be to tell us how you are trying to connect the
> two and whether you are using DHCP or fixed IP address.
>
> hth
>
>
> Pat Glenn wrote:
>
>>Does anybody know of the whereabouts of a good tutorial for networking?
>>
>>I am trying to connect an older NT4 machine to my XP home machine.
>>
>>* They can ping each other.
>>* I have identical logins on both machines.
>>* I can see the XP maxhine in the NT explorer. But I can't see the NT
>>machine from the XP unit.
>>* I am running the standard XP firewall (I suspect the problem may be
>>rooted here)
>>
>>Any ideas where to start?
>>

Sorry... Should've mentioned that. It's fixed IP.

The XP machine is running ICS and is set to 192.168.0.1 and the NT machine
is set to 192.168.0.100

3 Feb 2009 10:19 PM

Jack (MVP-Networking).

Hi
The usual stumble blocks to Sharing is Firewalls that bock the LAN Sharing
traffic, and correctly Sharing configuration on each computer.
I do not have any more staff for NT4 (search the Internet for the term,
Microsoft NT4 file sharing)
As for WinXP, maybe this can Help.
Successful Sharing involves some general consideration in Network settings,
http://www.ezlan.net/sharing.html
As well as specific adjustment of each computer according to what it is
allowed to be shared.
Windows XP File Sharing -
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;304040
Printer Sharing XP -
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/expert/honeycutt_july2.mspx
Windows Native Firewall setting for Sharing XP -
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/875357
Jack (MVP-Networking).

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> Does anybody know of the whereabouts of a good tutorial for networking?
>
> I am trying to connect an older NT4 machine to my XP home machine.
>
> * They can ping each other.
> * I have identical logins on both machines.
> * I can see the XP maxhine in the NT explorer. But I can't see the NT
> machine from the XP unit.
> * I am running the standard XP firewall (I suspect the problem may be
> rooted here)
>
> Any ideas where to start?
>