Problems with networking two XP pro pc's. My first home network

From: Lost in space (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 05/31/04 

Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 19:37:38 -0700

Hello everyone
Trying to set up my first home network.
I have two XP pro machines that I am trying to network
together using a small home use 100mb/s switch and pci
network carks also 100mb/s
I have run the network wizard on both machines with
one "hosting" internet connection i.e. the one with the
modem connected and the other to connect through the
other machine (if you can follow the above sentence you
are doing better than me)
I have checked the subnet mask and IP address on each
machine and subnet mask is identical and the IP address
are different only by the last set of digits. They are
also both using workgroup of the same name rather than a
domain.
Now for the problem (there just had to be one)
They do not talk to each other. In network places I can
see the icon for workgroup but when I select this to find
out if I can see each of the machines I get this message.
"Workgroup is not accessible. You might not have
permission to use this network resource. Contact the
administrator of this server to find out if you have
access permissions. The list of servers for this
workgroup is not currently available.

Both machines are logged on as administrator...
Please help

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