Hi chet,

Window XP home does not have networking. You will need to install

window XP Pro on the new computer to network it with the other two

computers.

Regards,

LelandJ

Chet Gardiner wrote:

> HELP!!!

>

> My main (Win2K) machine started the disk-click-of-death.

> I quickly ran out and bought a brand new computer with a 3 year

> complete hardware warantee. I will never build another computer again.

>

> The BAD news, the new computer has XP Home on it!!! SHIT.

>

> I'm trying to copy everything off of my old computer and make the new

> one visible to the other 2 computers on the network. I can't figure

> out how to make XP allow other computers (Especially Win2K computers)

> to access it.

>

> I've opened up EVERYTING. Turned off the firewall. Set the root of

> the C: drive to share with everybody but when I try to connect from my

> other computers (One Win2K the other WinXP Pro) I get the stupid log

> on window on the XP Pro and no matter what I try, I can't get onto the

> new XP machine.

> Any ideas?

>

> TIA

>

>

> (my first and best idea is to BLAST away WinXP and install Win2k Pro)

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