Re: Networking 2 XP Pro systems w/ crossover cable

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From: Chuck (none_at_example.net)
Date: 06/20/04 

Date: 20 Jun 2004 03:18:08 -0500

On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 19:45:36 -0500, "Bill" <wdotsmith155atverizondotnet> wrote:

>Ok let's see if I can explain this without confusing you and myself..... I
>have 2 computers, both running XP Pro, fully updated widows updates, drivers
>etc. Computer A is a Dell Dimension 2350 Broadcom 440x 10/100 Network card
>2.0GHz P4 256 MB RAM also computer A has the internet connection. Computer B
>is a Dell Optiplex GX100 3Com 3C920 10/100 integrated network card, 700 MHz
>Celeron 320 MB Ram. They are linked directly with a crossover ethernet
>cable. This has really got me confused.....I have ran the network setup
>wizard on both computers choosing the appropriate settings for each system.
>The internet connection is shared and working just fine. Both have netbios
>over tcp/ip enabled. Simple file sharing is disabled on both machines and as
>I want all drives shared with all systems, there was an administrative share
>automatically setup on the root of all drives for me. Workgroup name is the
>same: MSHOME, computer names are different. Computer A has XP's ICF enabled
>ONLY on the net connection, not the LAN connection. Computer B has NIS 2003
>installed and running (remember A is the host here and B is the client)
>before I configured NIS the network connection didn't work at all, so I
>configured it and now I get some form of communication between the 2
>systems. I can ping either machine from either machine and it works fine. If
>I go into my network places and click view workgroup computers I get an
>error message saying that "Mshome is not accessible. You might not have
>permission to use this network resource. Contact the administartor of this
>server to find out if you have access permissions. The List of servers for
>this workgroup is not currently available." If I click start>run on computer
>B and type in \\ followed by computer A's name i can browse most of what's
>shared there, but if I do the same in reverse I get the message saying
>"\\computername is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this
>network resource. contact the administartor of this server to find out if
>you have access permissions. The account is not authorized to log in from
>this station." There are 2 accounts with identical names and passwords on
>each system, so I know that is not the problem. Any help anyone can give me
>is greatly appreciated. TIA

Bill,

I think you have 2 problems.

It sounds to me like you still don't have NIS on B configured just right. You
apparently have it working for ICMP, but you need to configure it for file
sharing, by opening ports TCP 139, 445 and UDP 137, 138, 445 for the Local
(Trusted) zone.

Also, make sure the browser service is running on each computer. Control Panel
- Administrative Tools - Services. Verify that the Computer Browser service is
started.

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

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