I've got a very frustrating problem here. I've got one XP Home system on our network with mostly Win98 systems and one Linux machine. The XP machine is able to browse the network and see others' shared directories just fine. However, other computers are not able to browse the XP computer's shared folders. The computer can be seen in Network Neighborhood, but when I try to click on it I get a message saying the computer cannot be found. I also can't ping the computer from either the 98 or LInux machines, even by IP address. Any ideas?
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XP-98 file sharing issues
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The Windows Firewall is probably switched on.
My Network Places > right click > properties > General > check the "File and Print Sharing for Microsoft Networks", next click the General tab on the top > Windows Firewall > Settings > Click OFF > close > reboot XP Machine > try agian.
Hope this Helps.
Neil J Cotton
njc Information Systems
Systems Consultant
My Network Places > right click > properties > General > check the "File and Print Sharing for Microsoft Networks", next click the General tab on the top > Windows Firewall > Settings > Click OFF > close > reboot XP Machine > try agian.
Hope this Helps.
Neil J Cotton
njc Information Systems
Systems Consultant
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OK, finally found the problem. This computer has another firewall program, specifically McAfee. And sure enough, it was reporting "unsolicited" connection attempts from computers on the network. I'm keeping it, but I've modified the settings to allow connections from our network.
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