Oh network!
Aug. 13th, 2007 11:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
riari*headdesk*
WHY? Why is it everytime the two computers on my network are not talking to each other, it's because of the damn McAfee firewall on mom's machine?!?!
I've forgotten how annoying it was to make an XP machine and a 2000 machine talk to each other. Sometime this last three days or so, they decided to ignore each other and I didn't realize it until today. Why? Because if I don't run the phone line to my machine I get the internets from her's. Yesterday I couldn't make it work, so I just ran the line to me. Today apparently was the day to figure out why.
Windows 2000 seems to be an easy networker. Just name the computers' workgroup on the peer-to-peer network all the same, make sure connections are there, and that TCP/IP are on every computer, and Boom! Instant Network! XP? Nope, you got to run the networking wizard and then it tells you to make sure you run that network setup on the other machines. What it doesn't tell you? That network setup doesn't work on Windows 2000 machines.
Well, at least I gleaned something from that networking class.
WHY? Why is it everytime the two computers on my network are not talking to each other, it's because of the damn McAfee firewall on mom's machine?!?!
I've forgotten how annoying it was to make an XP machine and a 2000 machine talk to each other. Sometime this last three days or so, they decided to ignore each other and I didn't realize it until today. Why? Because if I don't run the phone line to my machine I get the internets from her's. Yesterday I couldn't make it work, so I just ran the line to me. Today apparently was the day to figure out why.
Windows 2000 seems to be an easy networker. Just name the computers' workgroup on the peer-to-peer network all the same, make sure connections are there, and that TCP/IP are on every computer, and Boom! Instant Network! XP? Nope, you got to run the networking wizard and then it tells you to make sure you run that network setup on the other machines. What it doesn't tell you? That network setup doesn't work on Windows 2000 machines.
Well, at least I gleaned something from that networking class.
