Odd problem

Associate
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1 Aug 2007
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Hi,
I have a wired network.

Cable internet ---> Vista 64 box -----> XP SP2 Box.

It's odd. Vista 64 box has the internet. It recognises XP box, I can use XP's printer from Vista, I can share files with XP. I have "Share this connection" on my net connection. On XP, it even says "Internet gateway on Vista 64" - it KNOWS it should be able to access the internet...

But it can't!

I'm made sure they're the same workgroup name, it just seems so odd that they're recognising each other, it's just the net's not working! It's not dying straight away, it's just both FF and IE will sit there, trying to load a page indefinitely. Pinging timesout.

Any ideas?
 

J.B

J.B

Soldato
Joined
16 Aug 2006
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If the pinging times out check your firewalls.

Is the XP machine being assigned an IP address etc?
 
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