Re: [Fwd: Re: [AT] Help configuring AT with XP and Crossover Cable]

Ok. I connected a WIN2K box to the same cable the AT uses. It used the
Shared Internet Connection just fine. In Net Neighborhood, the Workgroup
(MSHOME) showed up along with the shares. When I connected it to the
shares, it prompted for User and Pass. I entered the AT's credentials, and
the shares were accessible, and I could play the music files across the
network.

Sooooo, I plugged the cable back into the AT and booted it. It came up,
found the Internet, but couldn't see the shares. Aaarrrggghhh!

Does it have anything to do with the workgroup? Does the share name have
to be qualified with the Workgroup name? I tried \\MSHOME\TC-XP-
HM\E_AUDIOTRON but no workie.

It might be time to punt.

-Tim

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On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 19:27:47 -0800, Tim Hill <[email protected]> wrote:

>Well, what is hard is using an XP computer as a router. It sucks.
>Period. I always use a cheap 3rd party router box to handle this kind of
>stuff. It's not that you *can't* get XP to work, it's just that doing so
>requires examining the entrails of chicken at midnight under a full
>moon. Jim Allchin should be ashamed.
>
>--Tim
>
>
>Tim Carlson wrote:
>
>>Yeah, I think I'll grab a laptop tomorrow and bring it home to try it
out.
>>
>>I may just break down and get another IP and router (so that I have two)
>>and make it work that way. I thought that this would be an elegantly
>>simple solution to my work router problem.
>>
>>There's been some great ideas generated. This should not be this hard,
but
>>oh well.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>-Tim
>>
>>
>>On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 12:18:33 -0800, Brent Aliverti <[email protected]>
>>wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>I doubt this will help but I thought I would toss it in anyway.
>>>
>>>I recently bought a new house that had wired ethernet. The location I
>>>
>>>
>>wanted
>>
>>
>>>to plug in the Audiotron was not working. Audiotron would say path
(share)
>>>not found. I could plug my laptop into this same jack however and
transfer
>>>files quickly to my desktop machine in another room. So I wasn't really
>>>
>>>
>>sure
>>
>>
>>>if it was a jack issue or not.
>>>
>>>I could use a longer cable to plug the audiotron into a different
Ethernet
>>>jack and that did work. OK...so it seemed like it WAS a jack issue, and
>>>
>>>
>>yet
>>
>>
>>>I was puzzled that I could plug my laptop into this "bad" jack and
>>>
>>>
>>transfer
>>
>>
>>>files just fine.
>>>
>>>I finally just broke down and bought a Hobbes ( http://www.hobbes-
>>>
>>>
>>usa.com/ )
>>
>>
>>>Lantest-E cable test from TriangleCables.com and tested the jack. Sure
>>>enough...it was miswired. I called the original wiring contractor to
come
>>>out and fix it. I've actually found the $40 cable tester to be quite
handy
>>>to have around as it lets me quickly determine a bad cable or jack from
>>>
>>>
>>some
>>
>>
>>>other more esoteric network problem.
>>>
>>>Not sure it that helps you at all, but there it is.
>>>
>>>Cheers!
>>>Brent
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>