Suddenly it is working. I'm not sure what I did to cause it to malfunction
in the first place or to cause it to work in the second place but thank you
for your help. These tips provided a solution.
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-=- penciline -=-


"Malke" wrote:

> penciline wrote:
>
> > I did have 2 firewalls running and I took one of them down. I can now
> > click on the XP box's Workgroup but I still do not see anything in the
> > window. I ran net view from the cmd on all machines and I see that the
> > command completes successfully. It shows me the list of shared folders.
> > However I still don't know why the XP box doesn't see anything in the
> > windows environment.
> >
> Finish doing what I already suggested.
>
> If you have:
>
> 1. Created matching user accounts/passwords on all boxen
> 2. Turned off Simple File Sharing (XP Pro/MCE)
> 3. Configured firewalls correctly on all boxen
>
> then you will be able to share files/printers successfully.
>
> For XP and Windows 2003 Server, MVP Hans-Georg Michna has an excellent small
> network troubleshooter. It may also be useful with Vista. Take the time to
> go through it; that will usually pinpoint the problem area.
>
> http://winhlp.com/wxnet.htm
>
> Malke
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