Re: Home network problem

From: Confused User (dontwanttogiveone_at_here.com)
Date: 09/15/04 

Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 14:47:32 -0400

I have tried it with and without the firewalls and the problems persists.

"Miguel" <Miguel @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F437B0AC-D0D2-4E95-A122-8FFB8F147457@microsoft.com...
> Duncan,
>
> It seems that you have the computers connected directly to each other
> through the router. Both are getting and IP Address and can get on the
> internet. My suggestion would be to take the firewalls of the
workstations.
> The reason for this that the router that you are using is in reality a
> firewall. The internet world can only see on ipaddress and that would be
> your internet provider. A router send a public IP to the internet. Any
> thing behind a firewall uses a private. For example 192.168.1.1 through
254
> is private. Having double firewalls setup is not necessary. Try this and
> let me know. Email is martache@risktransferinc.com Seeya
>
> Miguel
> A+ MCP CCNA
>
> "Confused User" wrote:
>
> > I have two computers on a home network running through a router. Both
> > computers are running xp home sp1. Both computers can connect to the
> > internet just fine but one of the computers is having trouble accessing
the
> > network. On one, I can open explorer and go to "My network places" and I
can
> > see that computer and the other computer listed, but I cannot access the
> > other computer.
> >
> >
> >
> > On the other computer, when I try the same thing, it gets to "My Network
> > Places\Entire Network\Microsoft Windows Network" I click on that, to
bring
> > up MSHOME and it runs for a while before it finally shows up, then when
I
> > click on that, it says that mshome is not accessible and that I should
talk
> > to the admin.
> >
> >
> >
> > I have run the network setup wizard on both computers and added both IP
> > addresses to the firewalls running on both computers. I have also turned
off
> > the firewall that comes with windows. I would sure appreciate a solution
to
> > this problem.
> >
> >
> > Duncan
> >
> >
> >

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