re: Home Networking works only one way Tuesday, September 15, 2009 at 9:33 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Adam Bradley (7848 messages posted) Kill the firewall on the troublesome XP box (you can on all of then really unless you are worried about them attacking each other the router renders the need to have them moot.) That aside make sure they can ping both ways and are in the same workgroup. On Tuesday, September 15, 2009 at 8:23 am, RandyM wrote: >I have a small home network set up. 4 pc's 2 with XP 2 with Vista > >Both XP boxes have printers attached. All 4 go through a router. All 4 can and >do access the net. > >3 of the machine can talk together (file & print sharing) > >the 4th (XP box) can talk to the other 3 but they can not talk back. They get messages >about permissions. > >The unit with XP has file & print sharing enabled, the firewall has the file & print >sharing allowed. > >I'm stumped. Written in response to: Home Networking works only one way (RandyM: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 at 8:23 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Home Networking works only one way (RandyM: Tue, Sep 15, 2009, 8:23 am) re: Home Networking works only one way (MikeB: Tue, Sep 15, 2009, 1:02 pm) re: Home Networking works only one way (RandyM: Wed, Sep 16, 2009, 4:59 am) re: Home Networking works only one way (alex: Wed, Sep 16, 2009, 11:10 am) re: Home Networking works only one way (Adam Bradley: Tue, Sep 15, 2009, 9:33 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum