I have a home network with several computers both wired and wireless and also
with various operating systems. Everything works correctly EXCEPT for the
Windows XP Pro machine that does not see any of the other computers in
Network places, even though all the other computers can see it. It will ping
the other computers correctly but does not show them in the network and so I
cannot access the other computer's shared files from the XP machine. I'm
stumped !

 

Tomas wrote:
> I have a home network with several computers both wired and wireless and also
> with various operating systems. Everything works correctly EXCEPT for the
> Windows XP Pro machine that does not see any of the other computers in
> Network places, even though all the other computers can see it. It will ping
> the other computers correctly but does not show them in the network and so I
> cannot access the other computer's shared files from the XP machine. I'm
> stumped !

Check -- and double check -- your firewall settings, including any
firewall-like features included in your antivirus application (e.g.,
Norton's "Internet Worm Protection").

From a Command Prompt, run ipconfig /all and confirm that the XP
computer is in the same subnet as the others (should be, if it gets its
IP address from a common router's DHCP server, but you gave almost no
information about the configuration of your network).

Can any other computer either ping the XP computer or access files on
the XP computer?

Can you access a share on any other computer manually from the XP box via
Start > Run
\\computername\sharename

--
Lem

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during your analysis
you might turn off the
firewalls and disable
your anti virals for all
the machines.

at least you will have
some assurance that
the above are not
inhibiting your
connectivity.

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"Tomas" <Tomas@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news1A01AB4-8E12-4844-91CA-D29A722B8BEE@microsoft.com...
> I have a home network with several computers both wired and wireless and also
> with various operating systems. Everything works correctly EXCEPT for the
> Windows XP Pro machine that does not see any of the other computers in
> Network places, even though all the other computers can see it. It will ping
> the other computers correctly but does not show them in the network and so I
> cannot access the other computer's shared files from the XP machine. I'm
> stumped !

 

"Tomas" <Tomas@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news1A01AB4-8E12-4844-91CA-D29A722B8BEE@microsoft.com...
>I have a home network with several computers both wired and wireless and also
> with various operating systems. Everything works correctly EXCEPT for the
> Windows XP Pro machine that does not see any of the other computers in
> Network places, even though all the other computers can see it. It will ping
> the other computers correctly but does not show them in the network and so I
> cannot access the other computer's shared files from the XP machine. I'm
> stumped !

Have you run the Network Setup Wizard on this machine?

Also make sure file/folder sharing has been enabled. The
option isn't where you think it might be. Then make sure at
least one file/folder is shared.

Also check Group Policy for non-default network restrictions.

 

=?Utf-8?B?VG9tYXM=?= <Tomas@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
news1A01AB4-8E12-4844-91CA-D29A722B8BEE@microsoft.com:

> I have a home network with several computers both wired and
> wireless and also with various operating systems. Everything
> works correctly EXCEPT for the Windows XP Pro machine that does
> not see any of the other computers in Network places, even though
> all the other computers can see it. It will ping the other
> computers correctly but does not show them in the network and so I
> cannot access the other computer's shared files from the XP
> machine. I'm stumped !

A rather esoteric problem that occurs under some rare specific
conditions but fits your description is addressed by the following:

"You cannot view other workgroup computers on the network on a
Windows XP-based computer"
<http/support.microsoft.com/kb/903267"

(Fingers crossed)
HTH,
John