Connecting two WinXPPro machines: can ping but can't share files

Hello,

I am having problems connecting two Win XP Pro computers in a network. I
have set the IP adresses to 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.2. I can ping both
computers from both computers. From 0.1 I can see the files shared on
the 0.2 computer, but not the other way around.

The workgroups are the same. When I from computer 0.2 choose Run...
"\\192.168.0.1" I get the error message "Can't find network
search-path". Neither "\\computername\" works. And I do have shares on
the 0.1 computer, a harddrive with the resource name "E" with full
access for user-group "All".

Any help is appreciaetd.

c.j[DOT]w wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am having problems connecting two Win XP Pro computers in a network. I
> have set the IP adresses to 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.2. I can ping both
> computers from both computers. From 0.1 I can see the files shared on
> the 0.2 computer, but not the other way around.
>
> The workgroups are the same. When I from computer 0.2 choose Run...
> "\\192.168.0.1" I get the error message "Can't find network
> search-path". Neither "\\computername\" works. And I do have shares on
> the 0.1 computer, a harddrive with the resource name "E" with full
> access for user-group "All".
>
> Any help is appreciaetd.
>
I hope you are setting up the PCs manually, not using the "wizard" which
makes a floppy to set up the others. That is only suitable for
client-server setups, while you want peer-to-peer, or do you?
"Sharing" with Windows is notoriously insecure, so you might be better
off to keep one machine as a client (especially if it's portable) and
only share a special "public" folder on the other, though which you
transfer files. Security may not be a problem, though, especially if you
only dial-up to the Internet, so you could share one PC's "My Documents".
With WinXP there is no need to "map" a drive-letter to the remote
resource (is that what you mean by "a harddrive with the resource name
"E"" ?) because it will be "remembered" in "Network Places".
Make sure that the "netBEUI" protocol is enabled at both ends.

Hope that helps
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Mike Yates wrote:
> c.j[DOT]w wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am having problems connecting two Win XP Pro computers in a network.
>> I have set the IP adresses to 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.2. I can ping
>> both computers from both computers. From 0.1 I can see the files
>> shared on the 0.2 computer, but not the other way around.
>>
>> The workgroups are the same. When I from computer 0.2 choose Run...
>> "\\192.168.0.1" I get the error message "Can't find network
>> search-path". Neither "\\computername\" works. And I do have shares on
>> the 0.1 computer, a harddrive with the resource name "E" with full
>> access for user-group "All".
>>
>> Any help is appreciaetd.
>>
> I hope you are setting up the PCs manually, not using the "wizard" which
> makes a floppy to set up the others.

No, I set them up manually.

That is only suitable for
> client-server setups, while you want peer-to-peer, or do you?

I'm not quite sure what the difference is to be honest, but as far as I
know, I have never defined any of the computers as being the "server" or
the "client", so I guesse it is peer-to-peer.

> "Sharing" with Windows is notoriously insecure, so you might be better
> off to keep one machine as a client (especially if it's portable) and
> only share a special "public" folder on the other, though which you
> transfer files.

I just find it so much easier to share the harddrives so that I can
access both computers' files from both computers, so that is the way I'd
like to do it.

Security may not be a problem, though, especially if you
> only dial-up to the Internet, so you could share one PC's "My Documents".
> With WinXP there is no need to "map" a drive-letter to the remote
> resource (is that what you mean by "a harddrive with the resource name
> "E"" ?)

Yes, probably.

because it will be "remembered" in "Network Places".

Yes, but still it is more convenient to be able to access the other
harddrive by just a drive letter than having to go to Network Places.

> Make sure that the "netBEUI" protocol is enabled at both ends.

I'm running a TCP/IP network, thinking that is the best. Isn't it? At
least it is the most used.


Thanks for your reply - now with the additional info, any idea what is
wrong?

In article <bfjb7p$fef7h$(E-Mail Removed)>, "c.j[DOT]w"
<"c.j[DOT]w"@telia.com> says...
> Hello,
>
> I am having problems connecting two Win XP Pro computers in a network. I
> have set the IP adresses to 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.2. I can ping both
> computers from both computers. From 0.1 I can see the files shared on
> the 0.2 computer, but not the other way around.
>
> The workgroups are the same. When I from computer 0.2 choose Run...
> "\\192.168.0.1" I get the error message "Can't find network
> search-path". Neither "\\computername\" works. And I do have shares on
> the 0.1 computer, a harddrive with the resource name "E" with full
> access for user-group "All".
>
> Any help is appreciaetd.
>
>
Check your shares. Make sure the user account on each machine has
access to the other.

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Conor wrote:

> In article <bfjb7p$fef7h$(E-Mail Removed)>, "c.j[DOT]w"
> <"c.j[DOT]w"@telia.com> says...
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>I am having problems connecting two Win XP Pro computers in a network. I
>>have set the IP adresses to 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.2. I can ping both
>>computers from both computers. From 0.1 I can see the files shared on
>>the 0.2 computer, but not the other way around.
>>
>>The workgroups are the same. When I from computer 0.2 choose Run...
>>"\\192.168.0.1" I get the error message "Can't find network
>>search-path". Neither "\\computername\" works. And I do have shares on
>>the 0.1 computer, a harddrive with the resource name "E" with full
>>access for user-group "All".
>>
>>Any help is appreciaetd.
>>
>>
>
> Check your shares. Make sure the user account on each machine has
> access to the other.
>
Yes, there are lots of security levels to set. Don't be afraid of
"Advanced" buttons, they're only to deter thick Yanks.
This must be a sharing problem if you can ping each other - either
protocol-linking (NetBEUI over TCP/IP) or access rights at the user or
the folder level.

--
Have fun,
Mike
--
http://fonehelp.co.uk - PC support, no fix, no fee!

In article <bfjb7p$fef7h$(E-Mail Removed)>, "c.j[DOT]w"
<"c.j[DOT]w"@telia.com> says...
> Hello,
>
> I am having problems connecting two Win XP Pro computers in a network. I
> have set the IP adresses to 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.2. I can ping both
> computers from both computers. From 0.1 I can see the files shared on
> the 0.2 computer, but not the other way around.
>
> The workgroups are the same. When I from computer 0.2 choose Run...
> "\\192.168.0.1" I get the error message "Can't find network
> search-path". Neither "\\computername\" works. And I do have shares on
> the 0.1 computer, a harddrive with the resource name "E" with full
> access for user-group "All".
>
So is the user account on 0.2 a member of the "All" group on 0.1?

In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, (E-Mail Removed)
says...
> Conor wrote:
>
<snip>
>
> Yes, there are lots of security levels to set. Don't be afraid of
> "Advanced" buttons, they're only to deter thick Yanks.
> This must be a sharing problem if you can ping each other - either
> protocol-linking (NetBEUI over TCP/IP) or access rights at the user or
> the folder level.
>
>
There's nothing wrong with the installed protocols, because the sharing
works one way, so it must be a permissions problem (always assuming that
the client and server services are running on both machines).

Conor wrote:

> In article <bfjb7p$fef7h$(E-Mail Removed)>, "c.j[DOT]w"
> <"c.j[DOT]w"@telia.com> says...
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>I am having problems connecting two Win XP Pro computers in a network. I
>>have set the IP adresses to 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.2. I can ping both
>>computers from both computers. From 0.1 I can see the files shared on
>>the 0.2 computer, but not the other way around.
>>
>>The workgroups are the same. When I from computer 0.2 choose Run...
>>"\\192.168.0.1" I get the error message "Can't find network
>>search-path". Neither "\\computername\" works. And I do have shares on
>>the 0.1 computer, a harddrive with the resource name "E" with full
>>access for user-group "All".
>>
>>Any help is appreciaetd.
>>
>>
>
> Check your shares. Make sure the user account on each machine has
> access to the other.

See my reply to Morley. Can you tell me how to check this? When I start
Windows, no login-window appear. And since I am the only user of the
computers I'd like it to be that way. But maybe this is the problem.

Mike Yates wrote:

> Conor wrote:
>
>> In article <bfjb7p$fef7h$(E-Mail Removed)>, "c.j[DOT]w"
>> <"c.j[DOT]w"@telia.com> says...
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I am having problems connecting two Win XP Pro computers in a
>>> network. I have set the IP adresses to 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.2. I
>>> can ping both computers from both computers. From 0.1 I can see the
>>> files shared on the 0.2 computer, but not the other way around.
>>>
>>> The workgroups are the same. When I from computer 0.2 choose Run...
>>> "\\192.168.0.1" I get the error message "Can't find network
>>> search-path". Neither "\\computername\" works. And I do have shares
>>> on the 0.1 computer, a harddrive with the resource name "E" with full
>>> access for user-group "All".
>>>
>>> Any help is appreciaetd.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Check your shares. Make sure the user account on each machine has
>> access to the other.
>>
> Yes, there are lots of security levels to set. Don't be afraid of
> "Advanced" buttons, they're only to deter thick Yanks.
> This must be a sharing problem if you can ping each other - either
> protocol-linking (NetBEUI over TCP/IP) or access rights at the user or
> the folder level.

I'm rather new to XP and there are LOADS of settings - any tip where to
start looking, or what exact setting it could be?

Thanks everybody for the help so far.

In article <bfjs0d$fcj52$(E-Mail Removed)>, "c.j[DOT]w"
<"c.j[DOT]w"@telia.com> says...
> Rob Morley wrote:
>
> > In article <bfjb7p$fef7h$(E-Mail Removed)>, "c.j[DOT]w"
> > <"c.j[DOT]w"@telia.com> says...
> >
> >>Hello,
> >>
> >>I am having problems connecting two Win XP Pro computers in a network. I
> >>have set the IP adresses to 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.2. I can ping both
> >>computers from both computers. From 0.1 I can see the files shared on
> >>the 0.2 computer, but not the other way around.
> >>
> >>The workgroups are the same. When I from computer 0.2 choose Run...
> >>"\\192.168.0.1" I get the error message "Can't find network
> >>search-path". Neither "\\computername\" works. And I do have shares on
> >>the 0.1 computer, a harddrive with the resource name "E" with full
> >>access for user-group "All".
> >>
> >
> > So is the user account on 0.2 a member of the "All" group on 0.1?
>
> Maybe this is my problem. I don't really know. I don't log in to Windows
> on the computers with a username and a password. But I think I found a
> setting in something like "Local security policies" (translated from
> Swedish Windows), something like "Treat anonymous as member of All" or
> something like that. It was activated.
>
>
The easiest way to do it is to make sure that the local user has an
account on the remote machine - have you got a "Log off XXX ..." option
on your Start Menu where XXX is the username? If so just set up an
account on the remote machine using the same username and password, and
give that user the permissions required.