At 06:57 AM 7/30/2002, Dave Ropiski wrote:
>I have an HP with Windows XP Home, which has a firewire port and four USB Ports. One of
>the USB ports is connected to a Satellite modem for Internet Access. I am trying to
>network it with two older machines running ME. Using the XP Network Wizard I was able to
>get all machines to share the Internet connection, but can't get them to talk to each
>other on the local area network.
>
>I even manually entered ip numbers, and can ping each machine to another but still can't
>get the other machines to see the XP machine. Any suggestions?

Just out of curiosity, have you shared the hard drives on the XP machine?
You have to have them shared or there is nothing for the other machines
to 'see' when looking at the XP machine.

    Bob Wright
The NoSpin Group, Inc.
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