-=PCTechTalk=- Network problem
- From: "Tim Schoon" <gamemaster@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 00:50:05 -0500
Can anyone give me a hand here?
Tim :-) http://nbajammer.speckz.org
ICQ # 5756489 Yahoo: nba_jammer77 AIM: nbajam77 MSN: nbajam77
> I've got a huge networking problem and I hope you can help me. Recently
> (last day or so) I lost my network connection. There are 2 PCs on it, my
own
> (running WinXP Pro after upgrading from Win98 SE) and my mother's running
> WinXP Home. We'd ran the Network Setup wizard on her machine and then on
> mine and gave it my DSL provider's DNS settings. With the proper IP
> addresses, we got it running.
>
> Recently, it quit on me. I was about to format my machine and load WinXP
Pro
> on it but instead I upgraded from 98SE to XP Pro. It preserved my network
> settings for my DSL (though the local network failed). Now, I can't get it
> re-networked. My mother's machine can access the internet as well as my
> computer and files. My machine can access the internet, but at times only
> sees her machine and other times comes back with "Mshome cannot be
accessed"
> errors or "the location of \\Diane\C was not found on the network" error.
My
> machine is named "Tim" (minus the quotes), and hers is named "Diane"
(minus
> the quotes).
>
> I tried to run the Network Setup Wizard, and choose the Gateway option for
> each machine but that changes network settings to Obtain an IP address
> automatically, and we have to set it. My machine goes online with an IP of
> 10.0.0.150 and hers with 10.0.0.5. But to get to that we have to choose a
> direct connection to the internet instead of Gateway and when we do that I
> can't access her machine. What can I do?
>
> The closest I can come is full access from her machine and net only on
mine
> with no recognition of her machine.
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