I can't offer any help, only say that with my Windows 2000 computer I was NEVER able to share anything with the other networked computer or printer, even having had an expert work on it. We finally just "hard wired" to the printer, thank goodness it had two ports so each computer can access.
On another note, hope not to hijack your thread, but I need some Windows XP help myself. I'm thinking of getting new computers at work and of course they will be loaded with Windows XP, but I've got a lot of DOS documents in Word Perfect 5.1 that I need to be able to search the contents on a regular basis. I can do this in Windows 98 with no problem, but using XP I've not been able to get it to look inside the documents. I've searched the internet about this problem to no avail. It appears that XP really sucks in its search function, but maybe someone here can enlighten me.
Hope you get your problem fixed. And thank you (not that you had any choice) for giving me an opportunity to ask my question.
In each computer of the network, the "subnet mask" in the TCP/IP properties of the network card must be identical.
If one is 255.0.0.0 and the other is 255.255.255.0, they will by design NEVER see each other. Those two settings are common defaults, and they even get "remembered" the same by the human mind...or at least by my mind.