Having troubles setting up a home network

My computers are a tower windows XP with SP2 and a laptop with XP and SP2
I have ran home networking wizard on both systems and they cant seem to find each other.

I would like to file share and play games over this network .
Could someone help

thanks,

bushman91

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Do both have non-conflicting IP addresses - if you run one ip from the other computer does it connect.

Do they have the same workgroup address

How are they connected, have you got the right cable, ie. cross-over if their directly connected. Is it in the right port on you PCs.

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Both have XP home
they are set up through a HUB with regular cat 5 ethernet cables. I know the set up works becase i use my xbox on one of the cables.

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If they are both XP Home, check your firewall settings. When you use the network setup wizard it turns the firewall on by default.

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