Network Setup-Newbie please help!

I'm trying to connect up 2 computers, 1 is XP pro, 1 is XP home. The XP pro connects to the internet and the XP home is able to connect to the internet through the XP pro at the moment. (Its a 56K dial-up). The XP home can see the XP pro on the network but the XP Pro can only see itself. I want to share a prionter, files and LAN gaming but can't seem to do this and I don't know why. I tried what was suggested previously with setting up an account on both computers with the same Id and password but that made no difference. The XP home, although seeing the XP pro, cannot access XP pro as it does not have permission. What am I doing wrong?

Internet <-> XP Pro <-> Network Hub <-> XP Home

A quick schematic of my setup!

Thank you for your time and I look forward to your suggestion!
cpp

you may need to enable file and printer shring on both machine
as well i have noticed in switching from XP home to XP from - for some odd reason IPx/SPX.NetBois needed to be installed on both systems - that may just be my network though..
the other thing youll want to look into woudl be the windows firewall on both machinbes

if its enabled on both- then youll have problems

Have you tried running the XP network setup wizard - this works more times than not and may just get your network working. You'll find it at Start, All Programs, Accessories, Communications, Network Setup Wizard.

When you run this wizard, make sure you select the correct option for each computer with regard Internet connection (for one select that it has a direct Internet connection, and for the other select that it connects through another computer). Also, make sure that the workgroup is the same on both - the default of MSHOME will be OK.

Once you have run the wizard you may need to restart. Afterwards, on each computer open up and Command Prompt, type cmd in the Run dialog from the Start menu. Type "ipconfig /all" (without the quotes) and check that each computer has an IP address like 192.168.0.x (the one with the Internet connection should be 192.168.0.1 and the other computer will probably be 192.168.0.2). Also check that the subnet mask is set to 255.255.255.0. Finally, the second computer (without the Internet connection) should have the default gateway set to the IP address of the other computer - 192.168.0.1.

Then, still in the Command Prompt check that you can ping the other computers. Type "ping 192.168.0.x" (without the quotes), replacing x with the number of the other computer.

In Network Connections on each computer, right-click the Local Area Connection and click Properties. On the Advanced tab, make sure that Internet Connection Firewall is not turned on. Also make sure you have no other firewall software installed on your computer.

Next, make sure that you have an account with the same username and password set on both computers. Your network should be OK now.

To share a printer, right-click the printer in Printers and Faxes in the Control Panel, select Properties and click the Sharing tab. Enable sharing and enter an appropiate name. On the second computer, add a new printer, select network printer and enter the address \\computername\printername, replacing computername with the name of the other computer and printername with the name that you shared the printer as.

For file sharing, right-click a folder and click Properties. Click the Sharing tab and make sure that it is shared on the network. On the second computer, you should be able to access it by typing \\computername\sharename in the address bar of Windows Explorer, replacing computername with the name of the other computer and sharename with the name of the shared folder.

If it still doesn't work, perhaps you could expand on this:



Also, if it doesn't work, click Start, Run and type "ipconfig /all > C:\ipconfig.txt" (without the quotes). Do this on both computers and then copy the contents of ipconfig.txt into your next post.

I'm not sure why you would need ipx/spx this is for NWlink (Novel networks) . Make sure that both computers are in the same workgroup as Edwinbrains says and that file and print sharing is enabled and you should be fine. Also make sure that you have given both machines an IP address in the same network ie 192.168.1.1, 2 and make sure that both have the same subnet mask 255.255.255.0.

DudeDomain

Isn't that what I said as well?! lol