both were sweet man...no loss no problems! infact both were identical expect numbers!

look at my post in this topic above for ping!

thanks for hte link but Step 2: Start the Computer Browser service is fine and netbios is enabled on both!

netBIOS is enabled.

just enabled a guest account on the other machine and no help...

that site didnt do it either...its whack how i can only access it the way i stated before!

Breakthrough....kinda

i dont know why buy i can get in this way now.

"\\192.168.0.155\c\Documents and Settings\All Users.WINDOWS\Documents"

that and any path of a shared folder let me...

PING New to Old

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Peter Marceta>ping 192.168.0.155

Pinging 192.168.0.155 with 32...

@chris
thanks but nope...doesnt get in! doesnt do anything. "windows cannot find" in explorer and "filename or syntax incorrect" in command prompt!

@einstein
thanks, i checked for this and didnt...

Xp Home on the new PC, XP Pro on the old!

ZoneAlarmSS on the new PC, nothing on the old (ICA disabled)!

thanks...but i followed the whole thing, and no results :(

Just got my new comp back, so needed to setup my network again. However i had formatted the older one, so had to run network wizard again. Unfortunately i can only view/access files from OLD to NEW,...