I've been trying to network my windows XP computers together, I can't get my the computers to find each other.
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Reboot both computers.\n\nTry a different network name and reboot again.
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try switching the adapters in your laptops(if they are compatible)....if it works in your other laptop you know it's a software issue.\n\nif the above isn't a solution try removing the wireless adapter and rebooting the machine to reinstall. to do this:\n\nclick on start, settings, control panel\ndouble click on system\nselect the hardware tab, then device manager\nclick on the plus sign in front of network adapters\nright click on your wireless adapter and select uninstall.\nreboot your computer and let XP reinstall it.\n\nif this doesn't work then the wireless adapter is defective in which case will need to be replaced.\n\nGood luck!!!
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If you do not have a network, do both items have an Ethernet (Network port on them?) - if so you need a 'Crossover' network cable and just joine them, in XP the other pc will be recognised immediately, you will have to set 'Sharing' on the disk you wish to access. If you do not have ethernet ports then, look for Brooklyn Bridge or another similar program, that can use USB, Serial or Printer Ports to exchange data.
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The first and the foremost thing is to bring the PC's together on the same network. \n\nThen, you need to enable file and printer sharing on the PC's. \n\nThen you have to enable sharing of the specific folders.
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Yes you should be able to network between windows xp and a mac. \ni hope this link helps you get a start http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/11/19/mac_pc.html
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That's really a complex question.  You might try to ask a few questions with a little more direct ideas.\n\n"Network" in general is just a connection of many single devices or computers.  There are basically two types of networks.  LANs (Local Area Network) with a set of computers connected in a private network.  Or WAN (Wide Area Network) of which the most popular WAN is the Internet, though this can be used to describe large networks over many locations.\n\nI'll stick to "LAN" for this explaination.  A LAN is a connection of a few or many computers in a private setting.  Like in a home you can connect two computers together with Windows XP by simply plugging both machines into a Switch or Router.  I recommend using a router as it provides a little more control over the network and allows a single broadband internet connection to work with both computers at the same time.  With Windows XP the setup of a network is fairly easy with little or no special actions required.  Just connect and it should work.\n\nOnce connected both computers can share information and pereferials like drives and printers.  To share a device, simply right click on the icon for that device and choose "sharing" in the menu that appears.\n\nI hope that this basic explaination helps.  Again, please ask more detailed questions for better indepth answers.
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There is no easy way to do it.\n\nThe only way I can think of would be to create a bootable network floppy disk to give you DOS access to the network, then you can map a drive to another PC and run the windows XP installation from there... Network install. It will work but you'll have to use a full version of XP.
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You're right ME does suck.  But, if you networking with a router, all you'll need to do is make sure TCP/IP is on Auto assign IP address, and auto dns.\n\nAnother thing that might make life easier to to make sure all the computers on the network share a common work group name.\n\nwindows XP and ME ARE compatiable... infact.. windows 95, 98, 98se, ME, xp home, xp pro, server.. etc are all compatiable.
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Where are the 98 and the working XP machine getting their IP from?\n\nFrom what you wrote you have a win98 machine with 2 NICs.  One pointing to the Internet and the other to an internal network.  Both XP machines are using the internal network to connect to the Win98 machine which has Internet sharing enable on it.  Do I have it correct so far?\n\nIf so then you need to configure all the internal NIC to be using the same IP ranges with the same mask and the external NIC of the Win98 machine as the gateway.\n\nIt would seem that adding a router to your configuration would be your best solution and then all 3 computers could get their IP information from that.
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My Friend.. what all my friends above told u is correct if its some other operating system....but in your case you have a XP Home Edition...which dosent support networking...even if you have a network card...it wont be able to function due to the limitation of the Home Edition.Install 98 on both the systems...or upgrade your XP home edition to XP Professional....Cheers
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one of your computer's ip address is not registring with the network \nif you are running windows xp go to command prompt type in ip config and reset the ip addrtess
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Browsing is usually a slow process in a workgroup-based network.  This is simply because windows has to search the network to discover the other computers.  I'm pretty sure it has nothing to do with the fact that you have multiple editions of windows XP.  Make sure that the computers actually are in the same workgroup, or it will be slow.  Avoid browsing the network, simply type the name or IP of the computer you want to access directly in the address bar as "&#92;&#92;computername".  The only way to make browsing faster that I am aware of is to have a WINS server.  Traditionally only enterprise networks bother with this.  One last thing; you probably don't need Netbios for anything.  Modern networks only require TCP/IP for local and internet communication.  Turning it off may improve your connection, as windows won't have to inspect the incomming packets for the Netbois protocol.  Tip: for easy access between computers on a workgroup, use the same login credentials on all computers.  Windows will not bother sending domain information with the credentials the first time, so if the username and password happen to be the same, you should be granted access automatically.
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runt the network wizard, you have to enable file sharing on them, ans allow them to communicate
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try an additional connection ie ethernet cable , are you trying to accsess the files on xp when logged in as administrator try guest.\nok try this, on the me comp make sure file &print networks are installed. click properties on networks and set browse master to disable. one thing the xp comp must be booted first\nPhew !!!!\nok it seems i forgot something - bad taffy(sorry) link below\n\nhttp://www.computing.net/windowsme/wwwboard/forum/24211.html\n\nhope this works !!
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Enable the wireless card to accept connections.\n\nThat should be it. Also you have to have SP2 for Windows\nIt sorts out any wireless problems
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XP Home doesn't have the Remote Desktop server capability.  XP Home can be a client (controlling an XP Pro machine), but it can't be a server (being controlled by another machine).  For that, you can use a program like VNC, free from http://www.realvnc.com . \n\nThese tips should help you get the computers to see each other: \n\n\n1. If the computers run the original or SP1 versions of Windows XP, disable XP's built-in Internet Connection Firewall on local area network connections -- it's for use only on a direct modem connection to the Internet.  If they run SP2, enable the exception for file and printer sharing in the Windows Firewall.  Disable and un-install all \nother firewall programs while troubleshooting.  When un-installing a firewall program, use the un-install procedure provided by the \nmanufacturer .  Don't use Control Panel | Add or Remove Programs, which might not completely un-install it. \n\n\nFor more information, see: \n\n\nWindows XP Internet Connection Firewall \nhttp://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/xp/ic_firewall.htm \n\n\n2. Use only one protocol for File and Printer Sharing.  If the network needs more than one protocol, unbind File and Printer Sharing from all but one of them.  Details here: \n\n\nWindows XP Network Protocols \nhttp://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/xp/network_protocols.htm \n\n\n3.  Make sure that NetBIOS over TCP/IP is enabled on all computers. Details here: \n\n\nEnable NetBIOS Over TCP/IP (NetBT) \nhttp://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/troubleshoot/netbt.htm \n\n\n4. Run "ipconfig /all" on XP and look at the "Node Type" at the beginning of the output.  If it says "Peer-to-Peer" (which should actually be "Point-to-Point") that's the problem.  It means that the computer only uses a WINS server, which isn't available on a peer-to-peer network, for NetBIOS name resolution. \n\n\nIf that's the case, run the registry editor, open this key: \n\n\n   HLM&#92;System&#92;CurrentControlSet&#92;Services&#92;Netbt&#92;Parameters \n\n\nand delete these values if they're present: \n\n\n   NodeType \n   DhcpNodeType \n\n\nReboot, then try network access again. \n\n\nIf that doesn't fix it, open that registry key again, create a DWORD value called "NodeType", and set it to 1 for "Broadcast" or 4 for "Mixed". \n\n\nFor details, see these Microsoft Knowledge Base articles: \n\n\nDefault Node Type for Microsoft Clients \nhttp://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;160177 \n\n\nTCP/IP and NBT Configuration Parameters for Windows XP \nhttp://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314053
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Hey Pal,\n\nTo use the windows file sharing, you should just share one folder! \nbut if you have problem, try to check your connectivity use PING command, after you got the result try to check firewall configuration!\nit should work after you check these things.\n\nCiao,