Networking with Windows 2000 Professional Machines

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I bought a new computer with XP Media Center Edition.
I've tried to share some files and printers with 2 other computers running
Windows 2000 Professional.
I ran the Network Setup Wizard on the new XP computer. I was unable to run
it on the other computers as it did not support Windows 2000.
I tried to manually configure the 2000 machines but have not been able to
get the networking to work.

Steps I've taken:
Disabled the LAN firewall on the XP machine (all three machines are
connected to a router)
I've created the same workgroup on each machine.
Created the same account name and password on each machine.
Tried to update the hosts file on the machines, but may have done this
incorrectly as I haven't been able to get the IP address of the XP machine.

Symptoms:
When I "View workgroup computers" on the XP machine I get <workgroup> is not
available. You might not have permission to use this network resource.
Contact the administrator of the server to find out if you have access
permissions.
When I search for one of the 2000 computer names, the computer is not found.
>From the command prompt, I can ping the 2000 computer using the IP address.
However, I can't ping the computer using it's hostname, in fact, "ping
basement", "ping localhost", and even ipconfig all freeze the XP command
console.

When I search for the XP computer "office" from the 2000 machine, it finds
it okay. However, when I try to access the computer, I get "network path not
found"

I'm afraid I'm now doing more harm than good, so I'd appreciate any help I
could get.
.

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