Re: Gah! Win XP/Vista Networking Problems

["Evan Harris" <spanner@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Mike

I'm no expert but what are the settings on the two PC. I have a home network
where I just use the Workgroup networking and it works well enough (it does
do weird things but mostly works). I have a couple of Vista Premium PC a
couple of XP Pro and a number of Win2k machines talking; they're a mixture
of physical and virtual machines.

Make sure the Workgroup name is the same on both systems. On the XP machine
you can use Control Panel->System and then click the Computer name tab. You
can check the Computer name and the Workgroup on there and theres a Change
button that allows you to change the settings. The network ID button is a
wizard to seedt it up.

Also, what's the IP address on the two machines - can they ping each other ?
Are they in the same network ? Do they have the same netmask ?

I found if you got everything right it just worked, and I'm no network guy.

Regards
Evan Harris

-----Original Message-----
From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Mike
Sent: Thursday, 2 October 2008 3:27 p.m.
To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
Subject: [PCTECH] Gah! Win XP/Vista Networking Problems

I am getting the following message trying to browse my network on my XP
computer:
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My Network Places
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Home is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network
resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have
access permissions.

The network path was not found.


The only other PC is a Vista Home Premium Laptop on Wireless. Any ideas on
where I can start? Both PCs have the Firewall turned off.