Hello, my first guess would be a firewall blocking the connection.

As it's a new machine it could well of come bundled with something like
Norton firewall, Zone Alarm is another popular one have a look to see if
anything like that is installed and it would probably be best to turn it off
to test as you're behind a router this should be safe.

Another option could be the XP SP2 firewall - this should prompt you to
allow connections, unless it was set to "don't allow exceptions". In which
case you'll need to go to Control Panel -> Windows Firewall, and uncheck the
exceptions box. If that's still no help try turning it off completely to
test it.

Post back and let us know if that's helping.

--
Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
http://www.windowsresource.net/

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"Michael Chappell" <chappell@ukgateway.net> wrote in message
news:4de42b8447chappell@marinac.f2s.com...
> Hi all,
>
> I have a small home network of three Windows XP Home edition PCs which are
> connected via a Linksys wireless router to the internet via broadband. To
> make it easier I have named the computers thus:
>
> 'Neo' is a desktop attached to the router by a cable.
> 'Trinity' is a wireless laptop connected via wireless to the router.
> 'Morpheus' is a brand new desktop that I have just connected to the
> network
> via a cable.
>
> In all other respects, the machines can see each other and the internet
> and
> I have no problems with any other program except Infogames Scrabble v2.
>
> When I have loaded scrabble on Trinity and am hosting the game, the other
> player on 'Neo' can see the session and can connect to the session and
> there is no problem with playing the game. The same happens when hosting
> on
> 'Neo' and joining on 'Trinity'.
>
> The problem is with the new machine, Morpheus. On Morpheus, I can load the
> game and can see the sessions on the other machines but when I try and
> join
> them I get the 'error joining session' message and cannot join. If I try
> and host on Morpheus then the sessions can be seen on the other machines
> but they get the same error when trying to join the session.
>
> Morpheus is a new machine that replaced an old machine where I had
> Scrabble
> loaded and there were no problems.
>
> Any insight will be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Michael
>