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re: Question about 'Getting Network Neighborhood to recognize newly attached computers' Monday, August 16, 2004 at 7:07 pm Posted by MSR (351 messages posted) Probably being blocked by firewall, do you have a third party firewall on both pc's or just xp's inbuilt? Can you ping both computers? Please reply. On Monday, August 16, 2004 at 6:33 pm, Solaz wrote: >i have a desktop p4 2.4Ghz with 2 external drives networked together, working great >in a common workgroup, each with indiv ip addresses. i want my laptop (designated >in the same workgroup and it's own ip address), p4 1.5 Ghz to joing the network. >i can see the laptop from the desktop but cannot access it. i can see the workgroup >from the laptop but cannot access it. All wires are connected and checked. Both computers >are running XP prof. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Getting Network Neighborhood to recognize newly attached computers' Wednesday, August 18, 2004 at 5:47 am Posted by Solaz (18 messages posted) i use ZoneAlarm and have set up a trusted ip range to cover all the drives and the ip address of the laptop...but when i checked to make sure ZoneAlarm range was set on the laptop, i found i had forgotten to set the trusted range. Once i did that, everything was fine. Thanks for your probbing on what should have been obvious. On Monday, August 16, 2004 at 7:07 pm, MSR wrote: >Probably being blocked by firewall, do you have a third party firewall on both pc's >or just xp's inbuilt? >Can you ping both computers? >Please reply. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum