"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote:

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> "Rolf" <Rolf@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:76EE04C1-5D76-40E1-8A73-36B05A9AE088@microsoft.com...
> > Hello,
> > My name is Rolf. I have two computers running windows xp professional.
> > One
> > is in my dining room and the other is in my bed room. i have them set-up
> > in
> > a workgroup, they are connected through a switch and the dsl modem acts as
> > dhcp. Both computers can touvh the internet. the computer in the dining
> > room can can acess the computer in the bedroom, but the computer in the
> > bedroom refuses to see the computer in the dining room. Both computers are
> > running zonealarm. i setup the dhcp to cycle through 10 ip adresses and
> > setup zonealarm to allow the ip ranges. the computer in the bedroom is
> > running AVG free for anti-virus and the computer in the dining room is
> > running Norton anti-virus. does anyone know why my bedroom computer can't
> > see the dining room computer?
>
> Can you ping the computer in the dining room, from the computer in the
> bedroom, by its LAN IP address?
> Have you set up the appropriate exceptions in your Zonealarm?
> If you want to browse the network or access/ping by name, make sure each
> computer has "Enable NetBIOS over TCP/IP" ticked in its TCP/IP properties...
>
>
>
i have netbios over TCP/IP enabled and i can ping the dining room computer
using both the ip adress and the computer name. i just can't see it or
access it for that matter. i set the ip range on zonealarm to include all of
the ip addresses that the dhcp cycles through (if that is what you mean).