My computers are a tower windows XP with SP2 and a laptop with XP and SP2
I have ran home networking wizard on both systems and they cant seem to find each other.
I would like to file share and play games over this network .
Could someone help
thanks,
XP Home or XP Pro? The networking capabilities and configurations of both versions differ...
Do both have non-conflicting IP addresses - if you run one ip from the other computer does it connect.
Do they have the same workgroup address
How are they connected, have you got the right cable, ie. cross-over if their directly connected. Is it in the right port on you PCs.
Both have XP home
they are set up through a HUB with regular cat 5 ethernet cables. I know the set up works becase i use my xbox on one of the cables.
If they are both XP Home, check your firewall settings. When you use the network setup wizard it turns the firewall on by default.
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