Re: Adding Win XP Home PC to existing network

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In article <EF9B0269-E05B-4CF1-9067-EDCC80EBDBA5@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
WKBill <WKBill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>I bought a Compaq PC today with Win XP Home installed. I have an existing
>home ethernet LAN consisting of 2 old Win 95 boxes, and a Win 2k box. I have
>high speed Internet (Earthlink) and all PCs can access each other and the
>internet with no problem.
>
>I cannot get the new Win XP machine to communicate with any of the other PCs
>on the network. It shows the Win 95 machines in Network Neighborhood (or
>whatever it's now called), but when I click on them I get a message that I
>don't have permission to access them. It doesn't even report thaty the Win 2k
>machine exists. The Win 2k machine doesn't see the XP either, this after I
>added a user with the name of the XP to the Win 2k. The ONLY thing that works
>is that the Win 95 machines can access the XPs shared folders (and obviously
>the Win 2Ks also).
>
>One thing I noticed is that when I set up the peer-to-peer network I had to
>enable the NETBEUI protocol to get all the PCs to talk to each other. I
>cannot even find NETBUEI on the XP to enable. Could that be the problem (all
>PCs also have TCP/IP enabled). The XP machine can communicate with the
>internet just fine.
>
>If anyone has any ideas I would appreciate hearing them. I was leery of
>going with XP Home but was assured by someone a while back on one of these
>Microsoft.com newsgroups that XP Home would work OK with a small network.
>
>Thanks!

There should be no need to use NetBEUI on your network -- something
must be wrong with the TCP/IP protocol setup.

You can either remove NetBEUI and clean up TCP/IP (which I would
recommend), or install NetBEUI on XP and un-bind file sharing from
TCP/IP. I've written a web page with details:

Windows XP Network Protocols
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/xp/network_protocols.htm
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