On Nov 30, 3:18 am, "Steve Parry [MVP]"
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> Innews:6f16bca7-5f28-43b9-9df8-255e67622366@y20g2000hsy.googlegroups.com,
> Ian D Samson <iansams...@gmail.com> wibbled
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> > On Nov 29, 3:32 pm, "Steve Parry [MVP]"
> > <k100rs_1...@nospam.hotmail.com> wrote:
> >> Innews:cf8d2170-1b52-485b-9295-b5ee2e875321@s8g2000prg.googlegroups.com,
> >> Ian D Samson <iansams...@gmail.com> wibbled
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> >>> On Nov 29, 2:13 pm, "Steve Parry [MVP]"
> >>> <k100rs_1...@nospam.hotmail.com> wrote:
> >>>> Innews:79af8318-becb-4c1b-8c63-036956cbd942@x69g2000hsx.googlegroups.com,
> >>>> Ian D Samson <iansams...@gmail.com> wibbled
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> >>>>> My main computer is running Windows 2000 Pro SP4. My standby/new
> >>>>> machine runs XP Home. While I can see the computer in the list of
> >>>>> computers, I cannot connect to it because it says it is unable to
> >>>>> connect to the workgroup 'home' - the name I have given the
> >>>>> workgroup on both machines. Both machines are connected via
> >>>>> 100Mbps Ethernet Cat5 cable to a router, the router is connected
> >>>>> to the internet via ADSL line. I have set up each Drive C for
> >>>>> sharing and set the correct permissions, but when I type \\. >>>>> name> on my machine, I get an error, and when I type
> >>>>> \\<mymachinename> on the other PC, I also get an error. Is there
> >>>>> something inherently wrong with trying to network two different
> >>>>> operating systems? Why does Microsoft make their networking so
> >>>>> difficult? Banyan VINES and Novell NetWare are a synch compared.
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> >>>>> Thanks.
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> >>>> what happens if you type \\xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx where the x's are the IP
> >>>> addresses of each machine rather than the names
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> >>>> Steve Parry MCP MVPwww.gwynfryn.co.uk
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> >>> Hi Steve, THANKS!! I typed \\10.0.0.34\ and immediately got in. Now
> >>> I have to check the permissions on folders to allow "remote support"
> >>> because all users but the Default User and All Users folders I am
> >>> denied access, so I can only assume it's got something to do with
> >>> the permissions. I also need to block access from the other machine
> >>> to various private folders on my machine to stop quizzy people from
> >>> looking at my files.
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> >>> Thanks again.
> >>> Ian
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> >> No probs, all it is is name resolution not working 
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> >> Thanks for the feedback
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> > So do I need to switch on the W2K/XP DNS? I would do that in UNIX
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> Switch on ? If you have DNS servers on your network you should have the
> settings entered anyway.
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> There's a radio button in the WINS tab of your network settings that has
> "Enable NetBIOS over TCP/IP" try setting that to see if it helps.
> Alternatively you could put the address's of each machine in each others
> HOSTS file.
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Thank you Steve, I have enabled NetBIOS over TCPIP and everything
works great, except even though I am logged into the XP machine as
Administrator, it will not allow me to change group folder rights. I
have to go to the actual machine and do it there, I have remote
administration on, but that doesn't seem to help at all. I need to be
able to administer all 3 machines from my W2K desktop, without having
the hassle of going to each machine, logging the user out, logging
myself in as Administrator, changing the security/sharing settings,
log out, log in, ad nauseum!