[holymoly]

I am having problems add my XP Home PC to my Home network.

the network hardware device does exist.

I did the following for adding a wired Ethernet computer to the network.

In XP I logged on as adminstrator.

Plug the computer into a hub, switch, or router and then turn it on. (If your home has Ethernet wiring and you have a jack in the room where the computer is, you can plug the computer into the Ethernet jack instead.)

Log on to the computer as an administrator.

Click Start, right-click My Computer, and then click Properties.

Click the Computer Name tab, and then click Change.

If the workgroup name is not WORKGROUP, change the name to WORKGROUP, and then click OK.

Note
If you had to change the workgroup name, you will be prompted to restart your computer. After you restart, click Start, and then click My Network Places. In the left pane, under Network Tasks, click View workgroup computers. You should see icons for the other computers that are currently part of your network.

But it does not add.

[JohnWill]

Hold the Windows key and press R, then type CMD to open a command prompt:

In the command prompt window that opens, type type the following commands, one at a time, followed by the Enter key:

Note that there is a space before the -n or the /ALL, but there is NOT a space after the - or / in the following commands.

NBTSTAT -n

IPCONFIG /ALL

Right click in the command window and choose Select All, then hit Enter to copy the contents to the clipboard.
Paste the results in a message here.

If you are on a machine with no network connection, use a floppy, USB disk, or a CD-RW disk to transfer a text file with the information to allow pasting it here.

[holymoly]

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\test>HBSTAT -n
'HBSTAT' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\Documents and Settings\test>IPCONFIG /ALL

Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : PCNOONE
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-07-95-B4-AC-F2
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.2
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 206.248.154.22
206.248.154.170

C:\Documents and Settings\test>

[JohnWill]

Select Start > Settings > Network Connections.

• Double-click the Connection icon of the connection you wish to modify to open the Connection Status window.
• Click the Properties button to open the Connection Properties window.
• Click to highlight Internet Protocol (TCP/IP).
• Click the Properties button to open the Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) Properties window.
• TCP/IP Properties window, IP Address tab
• Select Obtain an IP address automatically.
• Select Obtain DNS server address automatically.
• Click OK to return to the Local Area Connection Properties window.
• Click OK to return to the Network Connections window.

See if that helps.

[holymoly]

Network places does not show any new Workgroup Icon or Network.

[JohnWill]

Are you connected to the Internet? Can we see another IPCONFIG /ALL

[holymoly]

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\test>NBTSTAT -N

Local Area Connection:
Node IpAddress: [192.168.0.5] Scope Id: []

NetBIOS Local Name Table

Name Type Status
---------------------------------------------
PCNOONE <00> UNIQUE Registered
WORKGROUP <00> GROUP Registered

C:\Documents and Settings\test>IPCOFIG /ALL
'IPCOFIG' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\Documents and Settings\test>IPCONFIG /ALL

Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : PCNOONE
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-07-95-B4-AC-F2
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.5
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 206.248.154.22
206.248.154.170
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Wednesday, November 18, 2009 5:19:48
PM
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Thursday, November 19, 2009 5:19:48
PM

C:\Documents and Settings\test>

[JohnWill]

I'd say that this might be a firewall on the other machine. You appear to at least be communicating with the other machine, your machine recognizes the fact that there is a NETBIOS browse master somewhere in the network.

[holymoly]

should I disable the Bitdefender firewall on the other PC for this purpose?

How do you manually configure a network on the original PC?

[JohnWill]

I have a checklist for getting networking working, I'd suggest working your way down the list, let us know where you fail.


Turn off any firewalls for debugging. If the firewall is the problem, you'll have to configure it to allow access to "trusted zone" addresses. Note that some firewalls must be completely uninstalled to stop them from affecting your networking.

Hold the Windows key and press R, then type CMD to open a command prompt.

In the command prompt window that opens, type type the following commands:

PING each remote computer by IP address, and if successful, PING by name. Open a command prompt as described above and type.

PING <ip address>
or
PING <computer name>

Where:
<ip address> - is the x.x.x.x IP address
<computer name> - is the computer name

A failure to PING is almost always a firewall configuration issue. Any failure to PING needs to be corrected before you go any farther.

Note: You can obtain the IP address and computer name of a computer by opening a command prompt (DOS window) and typing IPCONFIG /ALL. This should work for any Windows version. The IPCONFIG /ALL display will provide a wealth of useful information for debugging your network connection.

Check your Services are Started on all PCs:

• COM+ Event System (for WZC issues)
• Computer Browser
• DHCP Client
• DNS Client
• Network Connections
• Network Location Awareness
• Remote Procedure Call (RPC)
• Server
• TCP/IP Netbios helper
• Wireless Zero Configuration (XP wireless configurations)
• WLAN AutoConfig (Vista wireless configurations)
• Workstation

Note: You can check the services in Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Services.

All of these services should be started, and their startup type should be automatic.

If a service is not running, open it's properties and check the dependencies. Check each of the dependencies and see which one is preventing the service from running. Checking the event log is also a good idea here, there may be clues to what is failing.


All computers should be in the same workgroup for computer browsing to function properly. File & Print Sharing has to be enabled on any computer you wish to share files or printers from. You also need to actually share the resource in question from My Computer, right click on the drive/printer/folder, and select sharing.

If you encounter difficulties accessing computers that are visible in Network Places (Network and Sharing Center in Vista), make sure the computer being accessed has an account with the same name/password as the system connecting to it uses to login. NOTE: Vista's default is to require a password on the account to enable file/print sharing.

While the default NetBIOS setting is correct for normal network configurations, it's possible for it to be altered, and it costs nothing to make sure it's correct. NETBIOS over TCP/IP must be enabled for normal network browsing. You can open a command prompt as described above and type the following command: nbtstat -n. This will display the status of NetBIOS or indicate it's not configured.

[holymoly]

The XP computer I am unable to start the Computer Browser on the local computer.
Error 1068: the dependency service or group failed to start. But the dependency folder has no contents. And I cannot track down any event log.

[holymoly]

Looks like I got it going. I used this link and it helped me out as well.

http://www.onecomputerguy.com/networking/xp_network.htm

I can get my files from XP machine on my Vista PC, but not the reverse.

How to do?

[JohnWill]

In order to answer that question, we need to know exactly what symptoms you get when you try to access the machine.

[holymoly]

On the Vista PC, I right click on the hard drive, and in sharing properties, the Share button is grayed.

[JohnWill]

Do you have file sharing enabled in Network and Sharing Center?