[fire_mat99]

We have a network problem we have 3 computer in the house computer A.B.C computer B and C can send files agross are network and see each other but computer A can't send files agross are network or see computer B and C and computer B and C can't send files to computer A or see it .

All computers can go on the internet and file and printer sharing is sent up

[Black_Sol]

What OS are you using? any firewalls enabled?

BS

[fire_mat99]

Computer A Windows 2000
Computer B Windows 98
Computer C Windows Me

My the way we close zone-alarm are fire wall and Windows 2000 computer has to acounts admin and user

I know my buddy was having the same problem he had Windows 2000 and Windows 98 and had problems

[Black_Sol]

Generally Windows 2K and 9x dont like talking to each other, if there is anything that you want to share in particular i would suggest that you just map the drive which can be done by right clicking on netwrok places and putting in

\\"Name of computer"\"drive letter"$

This will allow you to mount a drive directly into your my computer

You may find that zone alarm still runs in the background even when shut down, i know mine does.

[fire_mat99]

Thay where doing some work on are street with the cables so the interent was down.

I'm not that smart when it comes to home networking but I found out the workgroup name on computer A is different than computer B,C


------------ workgroup----- computer name ---- IP address
computer A----- down-----------bear--------------192.168.0.2
computer B -----home-----------clone-------------192.168.0.3
computer C-----home-----------upo1--------------192.168.0.4


I can ping it but can't send files

[Memnoch322]

make sure all computers are on the saem network, also enable netbios over TCP.

Also zone alaram must be installed on all network nodes. And yes zone alarm does run in the back round.

[JohnWill]

Originally Posted by Black_Sol

Generally Windows 2K and 9x dont like talking to each other.

That's totally false, in general it's no more problem than any other version of Windows.

[Bob Cerelli]

The basics for troubleshooting are:

1. Make sure you have the same IP scheme (e.g. 192.168.0.x).

2. Make sure you have the same Subnet Mask, Gateway, and DNS IP addresses.

3. Make sure you can ping the other computer's IP address. If this fails, just for testing, make sure you turn off XP's as well as any other firewall.

4. Make sure you can ping the other computers by name.

5. Make sure you have the same workgroup name (watch for trailing spaces)

6. For troubleshooting purposes, turn off XP's and completely uninstall any other firewall software. You can always add more complexity after you get it working.

7. With XP, make sure you have the same username and password as the person logging onto the other computers. The default setting for XP Pro is to require a password for network access.

8. More details about how to network XP can be found at:
http://www.onecomputerguy.com/networking/xp_network.htm

9. More details about how to troubleshoot TCP/IP networks can be found at:
http://www.onecomputerguy.com/networking/trouble.htm

10. Apply the registry edit to fix the browsing delay from XP to Win9x computers
http://www.onecomputerguy.com/window...browsing_delay.

There continues to be a lot of misinformation about needing NetBEUI or to changing the NetBIOS setting. You can ignore both. Installing NetBEUI to solve a networking problem will just mask a some underlying and potentially important misconfiguration with TCP/IP. The default NetBIOS setting usually works. If browsing is a problem, you might set it to Enabled. But do not Disable it.