Machine can see network but can't be seen...

GHoosdumGHoosdum Icrontian
edited April 2004 in Science & Tech
We're on a network of 7 machines right now, and one of them is causing trouble. There is a mix of XP Pro and Home and Windows Me machiness running, and one XP Home machine can view all the other PCs (shared files) and ping them, but the shared files on this machine can't be seen by other machines, and this machine can't be pinged. We've run Home Networking wizard multiple times, made sure all the settings we could find matched correctly, and still... nothing.

Any ideas?

Comments

  • fudgamfudgam Upstate New York
    edited April 2004
    Network places--->View Network Connections---> Right click on lan connection
    >properties----> Advanced tab----> disable the firewall

    ....Assuming the OS is XP
  • CrazyJoeCrazyJoe Winter Springs, FL Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    GH says he did that...
  • fudgamfudgam Upstate New York
    edited April 2004
    CrazyJoe0813 wrote:
    GH says he did that...
    Not specifically, and he had to have missed something.
  • qparadoxqparadox Vancouver, BC
    edited April 2004
    You don't have some wierd subnetting going on do you? Make sure your IP's are bound to subnet masks that make sense (probably want all 255.255.255.0).
  • BlackHawkBlackHawk Bible music connoisseur There's no place like 127.0.0.1 Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    Same workgroup, subnet mask and same IP range?
  • CrazyJoeCrazyJoe Winter Springs, FL Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    I'm sorry my post might have been misunderstood. GH was standing behind me when I posted that. It was a response not a statement on his post.
  • GHoosdumGHoosdum Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    As I asked Joe to post, the firewall was off.

    They all had subnet mask 255.255.255.0.

    They are on the same workgroup, and in the same IP range, all working with dynamic IP assignments handed out by a wireless router.

    I may have missed something, but I have no idea what it is.
  • qparadoxqparadox Vancouver, BC
    edited April 2004
    I was talking to a friend the other day and there's a problem with windows networking and the "master browser" on the network. Every 11 minutes there's an election to see which computer is the master browser and sometimes when switching computers across networks windows computers become confuzed or get into deadlocks in the voting. The fix is to set one computer to be the dictator (permanent master browser). Unfortunately I don't know how to do this on windows but I know how to do it on Samba if you're running a windows box. Try googling it. I've got a final tomorrow morning or else I'd try and find out more. Here's a start:
    http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/WindowsServ/2003/all/techref/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/WindowsServ/2003/all/techref/en-us/w2k3tr_netbro_how.asp

    Only other suggestion is to try a new nic. You never know ...
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