Re: Networking XP Pro and NT 4

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Hello

Are all of them on the same workgroup?
Can all the NTs see each other?
Do they reply to pings?

I would check that the workgroup name is the same for all and that at least
one account with the same password is used in all computers... This is to
make things easy.

RT
"olsomatic" <olsomatic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:43DB8492-9B91-402A-B5A1-68BD5795FE14@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I have a very frustrating problem. I have an XP Pro machine and three
> machines running NT4 workstation on a peer-to-peer network. The XP and
> the
> NT4s cannot see each other no matter what I try. (I also have a machine
> in
> the workgroup running 2000, and it can see everybody just fine.) I've got
> file sharing enabled and all that jazz. I have enabled NetBIOS over
> TCP/IP
> on the XP machine as well as disabled the firewall. I've also installed
> NetBEUI on the XP machine. Nothing. I can't understand why the 2000 can
> see
> the NT4s and the XP Pro can't. Any other ideas out there?


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