networking

we have three computers. computer1, computer2 and computer3. comp1 and comp3 are sharing to each other. com2 and comp3 sharing to each other but comp1 and comp2 are not sharing drives to each others. they are pinging to each other and sharing internet but not Recognizing each others. we r running winXP on all three comp.

 

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Can they ping by name? If so, what are the symptoms when you attempt to access shared resources?

 

no they r not pinging by name they r taking only ip addresses

 

no they r not pinging by name. they are only taking ip addresses

 

I assume you've ran winxp's network setup wizard on each computer. Also you can try messing with windows firewall like disabling it on each pc then restarting them and see if it helps.

 

My question is CAN they ping by name. If not, that's the first thing you need to correct before you go any farther.

Let's see this for each machine.

Start, Run, CMD to open a command prompt:

Type the following command:

IPCONFIG /ALL

Right click in the command window and choose Select All, then hit Enter.
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.