yes I have. Also, I just did load win xp pro on ours (I upgraged our computer
with new hard drive and such). It was doing the same thing before I upgraded.

"Jim Macklin" wrote:

> Have you run the XP networking wizard on both computers?
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> "adradon" <adradon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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> |I am trying to network two PCs through a switch. I have
> limited or no
> | connectivity on the host. I get no error messages on the
> client. Apparently
> | DHCP is not working, when I try to repair the connecton,
> it says it can't
> | repair because of the IP address. I tried to assign a
> static IP but still no
> | go. I'm running xp pro on the host and xp home on the
> client. The switch
> | shows connectivity. I can ping the host from the client,
> but can't ping the
> | client from the host. We have DSL Internet connection. I
> had this setup up
> | and running a couple of years ago with xp pro on the host
> and win 98 on the
> | client and it all worked great. I would greatly appreciate
> any help. Thanks
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