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2 PCs LAN fails to work
Hello, before I begin I would like to mention that the language version of my windows is Polish, therefore some commands, names or errors will be just my translations.
For the last 2 days I have been trying to connect my notebook (Win7 Home Premium x64) and PC (XP Home 32bit) with an Ethernet cable. Shortly after plugging the cable into both network cards and setting IPs and Masks I succeeded. The next day it did not work any longer.
The XP PC:
Here, the system can see just itself, the IP is set to 192.168.0.1, and mask is set to 255.255.255.0; the workgroup is set to WORKGROUP, and I configured it with wizard as a network without access to the Internet. net view commands returns just the pc itself I cannot ping notebook (time outs).
The Win7 Notebook:
System and net view command can see both notebook and the XP pc, however only the notebook is accessible. Accessing the XP PC in any ways such as ping command, "\\192.168.0.1\", or "\\PC_NAME\" fails and return 0x80070035 error ( "unable to find the network path"). Actually the ping command returns sth like: "Response from 192.168.0.2(yes, the notebooks IP): Unable to find host". Workgroup is set to WORKGROUP, IP is 192.168.0.2 and Mask is exactly the same as on the PC. The network(which figures as "Unidentified Network") is set to home Network, however I did not create any HomeGroups. Advanced sharing settings seem to be correct too, network detection, sharing, 40 and 56bit sharing is enabled.
I have read dozens of topics similar to this and tried even more solutions, with no result. What I find the most strange is that 2 days ago I could easily browse my notebooks shared files from my XP pc, and the next day - all I did between those 2 tries was watching a movie :P - suddenly it stopped working. I have completely ran out of ideas. I have tried using another network card - the XP PC has 2, re-installing drivers to all cards. I would like to point out that at home (atm i am on vacation) I have been setting up similar networks dozens of times and never experienced any serious obstacles.
edit: I forgot to add that firewalls are off.