Heres the deal, I just recently formatted two dell systems that are used in a small office they are both connected togeather by a Cisco hub and to the internet through a dsl connection, they were seeing each other fine on the workgroup before the DSL was installed but after it, it seems that the two computers cant see each other in the workgroup in which they need to so they can see a printer. Things ive already done to troubleshoot:
-Installed Service Pack 4
-Checked windows Client for microsoft networks
-Ping each others IP (Sucessful)
-Simple things like the name of the workgroup are correct
-Each also has a diffrent computer name (one is WIA1 and other is WIA2)
-Have turned off software firewall and checked for connection but still unsucessful
-Renamed workgroup
I was wondering if anyone here has also had problems like these before and can help me with this problem, I emailed dell about the problem but they refuse to work on anything network unless its hardware related even though since they supplied the operating system with the computer which makes them responsible for users questions(Since microshit refuses too). Im also having problems with a home computer with windows 2000 also installed on it with seeing a XP computer but we've had dsl for over a year and could see each other fine and it wasnt till it was reformatted that the problem arrose(this computer has no service packs on it) so im guessing this is a fairly common problem with windows 2000, any advice?
-Installed Service Pack 4
-Checked windows Client for microsoft networks
-Ping each others IP (Sucessful)
-Simple things like the name of the workgroup are correct
-Each also has a diffrent computer name (one is WIA1 and other is WIA2)
-Have turned off software firewall and checked for connection but still unsucessful
-Renamed workgroup
I was wondering if anyone here has also had problems like these before and can help me with this problem, I emailed dell about the problem but they refuse to work on anything network unless its hardware related even though since they supplied the operating system with the computer which makes them responsible for users questions(Since microshit refuses too). Im also having problems with a home computer with windows 2000 also installed on it with seeing a XP computer but we've had dsl for over a year and could see each other fine and it wasnt till it was reformatted that the problem arrose(this computer has no service packs on it) so im guessing this is a fairly common problem with windows 2000, any advice?