RE: One of network computers can't see the other one

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From: David Hetherington (DavidHetherington_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/04/05 

Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 13:05:05 -0800

I will agree with Carey on this one, chances are you are running another
firewall, Norton Internet security or something along that line. If you are,
I and others agree would disable or uninstall that second Firewall
application. It is unnessary to have both the windows XP FW and a third
party app FW running on the system. If you must have both, look through the
third party app's documentation to see how you can set up/enable access from
computers on the same subnet as your system. Norton Internet Security has a
Home Networking Wizard that you can run, basicly it scans your system for an
IP address and adds that network address range to the allowed access range.

"Bijan Molayi" wrote:

> I have set up a small network with 1 desktop and 1 laptop (both running on
> WIN XP SP2), and a Linksys router. Both computers work fine with the
> Internet.
> File sharing is enabled on both of them.
> The laptop can see the whole workgroup (both PCs) and can access the shared
> files on the desktop.
> The desktop can only show the workgroup, but not the PC's in it (not even
> itself), and obviously can't access shared files on the laptop. I tried to
> ping the laptop from the desktop, but even the ping fails. I confirmed that
> the desktop can ping itself okay.
> I have exactly the same symptoms if I turn the Windows Firewall off on both
> computers.
>
> Could anyone tell me what may be the cause of this problem?
>
> Bijan
>
>
>

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