Re: Networking 2 XP Pro systems w/ crossover cable

From: Bill (wdotsmith155atverizondotnet)
Date: 06/20/04 

Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 11:30:02 -0500

Thanks for the tip chuck, that has helped somewhat. I have opened the ports
you suggested for NIS on computer B and the browser service is started and
running on both machines. I have most functionality now, however I still
have a problem with computer A...anytime I go to my network places and click
view workgroup computers, I get the same message as before basically atating
that the account is not authorized to log in from this station. In the local
security policies I have the sharing and security model set to classic and
as I mentioned before I have 2 user accounts on each machine with the same
name and password. I may have some setting on B changed to not allow this,
but I'm not sure as these machines are normally standalone workstations and
I think I remember a setting having to do with this, but I'm really not
sure. Once again any help is appreciated. TIA 

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"Chuck" <none@example.net> wrote in message
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> 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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