I thought since these were similar OSs that I wouldnt have any trouble networking them. Wrong.
I had a working home networking setup with 7 boxes all running Win 2000 Pro. I am using a Netgear 8 port hub and have one box set to share the internet connection with the other 6 boxes. I use a US Robotics external modem to connect to the internet. Every thing has been working great. The setup wizzards had everything sharing properly and every box had access to the internet.
My wife wanted XP so I purchased XP Pro and installed it on her machine. Then ran the wizards and thats where the problems began. I have yet to have the XP box connect to the internet or share with the boxes that still can connect. Let me explain. Every box on the network shares the same workgroup name ( I have checked overe and over ). The XP box now seems to have a sub network that can see 2 of the other boxes on the network and share with them ok. This network uses the same workgroup name. These boxes however can not connect to the internet now
The 4 other boxes including the one sharing the internet connection can see each other and share the internet access just fine but canot see the 3 other boxes including the XP box.
I have checked everything that I know and am stumped. Half of my network cant connect to the internet and share with the rest of my network.
I have reran the wizards on the 2000 boxes to try and get them back but they only reconnect to the XP box even after the internet connection sharing wizard is ran.
Please help im tired of sharing my computer with my Wife
Let me say now that im not that good at networking, DUH. If you have a suggestion please be long winded and explain throughly what to do. I know how to get around 2000 prety good just dont know a lot about networking and how to set things up manualy.
Please no links to networking sites. Been there done that. Seems to answer every question except the one I have.
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