home networking, what am I overlooking?

Blisster · Post by **Blisster** » Mon Mar 17, 2003 6:24 pm

I've had a home network set up for well over a year and a half with no problems whatsoever. I am running one system with WinXP Pro and one with Win98 connected via a netgear RP114 router.
Recently I upgraded my primary rigs mobo to one with an on-board NIC (Epox 8RDA+). Now, my primary computer can't see the workgroup or the other machine OR the printer hooked up to the other machine. I've run the network setup wizard a few times, did it on both machines.
both computers have access to the net, but they just dont see each other. The secondary righ will call up the workgroup and see itself in there, but not the primary rig. The Primary rig, however will time out while trying to browse the entire network, and it will say that 'workgroup' is not accessible and that I may not have permission to access this workgroup...blah blah blah.'
I know I'm just overlooking some small detail but my frustration is now preventing me from thinking properly.
any suggestions?
thanks
J

objohn · Post by **objohn** » Mon Mar 17, 2003 6:37 pm

Can the computers ping each other?

OJ

Blisster · Post by **Blisster** » Mon Mar 17, 2003 6:48 pm

Blisster · Post by **Blisster** » Tue Mar 18, 2003 1:43 am

anyone?

objoohn helped me configure netBEUI but that hasn't solved my problem.

any other help

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Tue Mar 18, 2003 4:29 am

Windows XP firewall disabled?

You mention you ran "Network Setup Wizard" a couple of times on both machines...has your 98 rig been upgraded to XP now?

The machine that you upgraded...did you do a clean install of the OS?

The machine that you didn't upgrade....back when the network was working fine, what protocols were you using? Did you do stuff like unbind TCP from networking, using NetBEUI instead?

Blisster · Post by **Blisster** » Tue Mar 18, 2003 12:53 pm

Thanks for the replies guys, I figured it out.
Long story short, my new mobo came with PC-Cillin, so i figured I would try it out as I have beena Norton guy for a long time. Well, I didn't realize that it had a personal firewall built in

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I've been tearing my hair out for hours trying to figure this out.

Cat, I did a reinstall over the old installation, but thought this may have been the source of this and some other problems, so I just did a format/reinstall. Imagine my frustration when i was having the SAME problem again!!!!

got it sorted now though, thanks again guys.

Objohn, thanks for all the help yesterday.

J

objohn · Post by **objohn** » Tue Mar 18, 2003 2:18 pm

i hate that program!! it's got more perforations than a tetley tea bag!!

Well done on figuring it out - it sounded like a firewall thing - hence my suggestion yesterday of the XP personal firewall!!

All the best,

gobd · Post by **gobd** » Tue Mar 18, 2003 11:27 pm

My mobo came with the same program. It seems to use less resources and scan faster and find more viruses then norton, plus it came with a built in firewall that work pretty good. I have forgot to disable to firewall a ton of times when my network breaks and i have to set it up again (it uses ICS), and i spend an hour or two trying to figure it our before i realise that the damn firewall is still on.