whocares Posted July 23, 2008 Report Share Posted July 23, 2008 I hate networking and programming...heres the problem, I have 5 computers in the shop...all have file and print sharing enabled, they are all XP pro and they all can access the internet...I just can't access any of them from my computer...so we have to put everything on jump drives for me to see it...What am I doing wrong???? Did I mention I hate networking? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freak Posted July 23, 2008 Report Share Posted July 23, 2008 Did you share the folder(s) or is the information you are trying to look at in the shared folder (right click, sharing and security)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whocares Posted July 24, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2008 Yep, lots of shared folders and printers on the network and I can't see or access either one, I can't ping anything but the gateway...This should be easy, but I am missing something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willingtocope Posted July 24, 2008 Report Share Posted July 24, 2008 I assume your computer is on the same network....also running XP and not Vista (Vista networking doesn't always play nice)...and all the computers are actually connected to a hub or router and that hub or router is what's connected to the internet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whocares Posted July 24, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2008 Yep, router to the internet...tcp/ip installed as a matter of fact all protocols installedBoth machines have xp pro...This is driving me crazy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willingtocope Posted July 24, 2008 Report Share Posted July 24, 2008 No actual servers, right? So they're all doing peer to peer. Are the all in the same domain...ah, WorkGroup? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willingtocope Posted July 24, 2008 Report Share Posted July 24, 2008 Are you running DHCP on the router? Do they all have similiar IP addresses...like 192.168.something.something? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whocares Posted July 24, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2008 Yep peer to peer, same workgroup, same IP grouping, same subnet mask, neither have ver been restricted, I tried as user with admin powers, did not work, logged in as admin in admin account, still no changes...What am I missing...Why can't I ping? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whocares Posted July 24, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2008 BTW I did chek the inbound echo requests on both machines and disabled the firewalls just till I could get things going...but I'm stumpted... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willingtocope Posted July 24, 2008 Report Share Posted July 24, 2008 Well, she who must be obeyed is calling me, so I'll have to stop for the night...So...ALL machines can see the internet, they just can't see each other...right? Behind a router / firewall...with the router providing the actual internet IP address to the rest of the world...the other machines should be getting their IP address from DHCP on the router...and those addresses should be in the 192.168.1.something range. The subnet mask should be 255.255.255.0 . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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