I have just recently bought a Dell Inspiron B130 and I am attempting to
incorporate it into my existing network between a my printer, and to other XP
machines both home edition. The laptop is also running home. I have ran
through the wizard multiple times I have even tried to change the name of the
network by starting from scratch. The funny thing is is when I change the
network name of my workgroup by running the wizard on one of my desktops to
MSHOME2 and I do the same to the laptop they still cant see one another
but...both my desktops and the printer can still see one another even though
the workgroup names are deiifrent. I can ping all of the machines with the
laptop and the lap top can see the router and it has internet access. Any
help wpuld be appreaciated.

On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 17:12:02 -0800, Gotekk <Gotekk@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:

>I have just recently bought a Dell Inspiron B130 and I am attempting to
>incorporate it into my existing network between a my printer, and to other XP
>machines both home edition. The laptop is also running home. I have ran
>through the wizard multiple times I have even tried to change the name of the
>network by starting from scratch. The funny thing is is when I change the
>network name of my workgroup by running the wizard on one of my desktops to
>MSHOME2 and I do the same to the laptop they still cant see one another
>but...both my desktops and the printer can still see one another even though
>the workgroup names are deiifrent. I can ping all of the machines with the
>laptop and the lap top can see the router and it has internet access. Any
>help wpuld be appreaciated.

Lack of complete visibility in a workgroup can be caused by several problems,
but the most common is a misconfigured or overlooked personal firewall.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/your-personal-firewall-can-either-help.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/0...ther-help.html

If no help there, provide "browstat status" and "ipconfig /all" from each
computer, and we can diagnose the problem. Read this article, and linked
articles, and follow instructions precisely:
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/troubleshooting-network-neighborhood.html#AskingForHelp>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/0...#AskingForHelp

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Cheers,
Chuck, MS-MVP [Windows - Networking]
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/
Paranoia is not a problem, when it's a normal response from experience.
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actual address pchuck mvps org.