Re: Accessing Home Network

From: Henry Eakin (heakin@na.ko.com)
Date: 12/28/02 

From: "Henry Eakin" <heakin@na.ko.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 09:20:36 -0800

Thank you for your reply. I tried everthing you said but I
still get the same message. All Office PC's have the same
workgroup, TCPIP is the only protocol being used, Client
for Microsoft Networks and File sharing is installed and
enabled.

These are the configurations of my home office network

xp1
IP address: 192.168.1.130
Submask: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 192.168.1.1

XP2
IP address: 192.168.1.132
Same Submask and Gateway

Win 98
IP address: 192.168.1.129
Same Submask and Gateway

Office PC using VPN
IP address: 192.168.1.131
Same Submask and Gateway

Do you have any other suggestions?

>-----Original Message-----
>In article <news:031a01c2adb7$01172670
$8af82ecf@TK2MSFTNGXA03>, Henry Eakin
><heakin@na.ko.com> wrote:
>
>> I use a Windows 2000 machine and connect to my work
using
>> VPN. I have a home network connecting two windows XP
>> machines and a windows 98 machine. I would like to
access
>> the printer that I have attached to the windows 98
machine
>> but I keep getting the message "The list of servers fro
>> this workgroup is currenly not available". Any
suggestions?
>
>1) Make sure all home PCs belong to the same workgroup.
>
>2) TCP/IP is the only protocol you should need to use
>
>3) Make sure Client for Microsoft Networks and File and
Printer Sharing for
>Microsoft Networks are installed/enabled.
>
>4) Since you didn't mention using a DHCP Server to assign
IP Addresses, I'll
>assume that your not. Make sure that all home PCs belong
to the same Class
>C network and have the same Subnet Mask. For example:
>
>XP Box #1: 192.168.2.100
>XP Box #2: 192.168.2.101
>98 Box: 192.168.2.102
>
>
>5) Make sure all three above machines use 255.255.255.0
as the Subnet Mask.
>
>[a router or a firewall with a built-in DHCP Server can
definitely make
>things more simple -- if you have an old PC in the
closet, checkout
>SmoothWall GPL (http://www.smoothwall.org) and put it to
good use]
>
>6) Share the printer.
>
>Caveat: You'll most likely need to download/install/use
XP OS-specific
>drivers on your XP machine to be able to use the printer
shared on your 98
>Box.
>
>
>.
>

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