Re: Cannot get into the home network

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From: Peter Near [MCE MVP] (peter_at_thenears.com)
Date: 12/29/04


Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 21:00:47 -0500

Make sure your machines are all on the same workgroup, and that you're
not using domains (probably not in a home environment).

MCE 2005 ships with the Windows Firewall on by default, so that may be
blocking some of your network requests. You should be able to configure
it from Control Panel / Windows Firewall.

Pete

Donna wrote:
> Just bought a VAIO with MCE on it for our son. We have 3 dell systems with
> Windows XP home edition which have been working just fine on our network for
> two years. We cannot get the new VAIO added to the network. Is there a
> problem with MCE being compatible with regular XP?? You'd think not but
> something is wrong. We made sure nothing else was running, including Norton
> so we have no idea what to do next. Anyone out there have a fix?



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