Re: Network path not found?
From: daytripper (day_trippr_at_REMOVEyahoo.com)
Date: 02/26/04
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Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 23:03:27 GMT
On 22 Feb 2004 23:53:24 -0800, nick971@hotmail.com (Nick) wrote:
>Hi,
>
>My home LAN consists of a Windows 2000 and an XP computer connected
>through a Linksys router/switch. The two computers can see each other
>in My Network Places and the XP machine can browse the 2000 machine
>and access its shares. The problem is, the 2000 machine can't browse
>the XP machine; if I click on the XP machine's name in My Network
>Places, I get a "Network path not found" error. Pinging the XP
>machine doesn't work either (it times out) but the IP address
>corresponding to the XP machine's Netbios name is correctly resolved
>by the Ping command so it's not a name resolution problem.
>
>The 2000 machine is a Broadcast node and the XP machine is a Hybrid
>node (it's a laptop and I use a WINS server at work, so I set it to
>Hybrid instead of Broadcast, but this should still work OK because a
>Hybrid node reverts to broadcasts if a WINS server is not found).
>
>Why isn't this working?
Because you have a firewall running on the XP machine?
/daytripper
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