ethernetty IP problem...

[brothermerry]

i've just connected to my college network and i have a problem which irritates me so. I can connect to the internet no problem at all. evidence of this is the fact that i'm posting on this forum. however, i can't connect to other computers on the network, which i know you should be able to because i've done it on a friends computer. i've set up my connected exactly to what the handbook says (basically, automatic IP, automatic DNS plus .pac config) which got the internet working but not this other bit, the connecting to other computers. so i figure it's a problem with my ethernet card which is an intel pro/1000 CT on a gigabyte motherboard. so i run the the windows XP network diagnostic tool and it fails. why? because the pinging tests failed, and it says that means its a problem with the ethernet adapter. here's the full results if it helps...

http://www.geocities.com/brothermerry/netdiag.html

can anyone PLEASE help me. it's getting to be very frustrating. is it more likely to be a problem with the adapter itself or my connection? i'm a network newbie so i have no clue whatsoever.

thanks...

[brothermerry]

i forgot to mention that sometimes other computers pop up in "my network connections" but when i try to open them it goes access denied, network path not found. it did this at home too when i was just connecting two computers through a hub. exactly the same problem, and there was no problems with sharing permissions or anything. i couldn't even open the "workgroup computers" and it'd give me some sort of error that shouldn't have been. this has been going on for at least two weeks now and it's a little frustrating as you can imagine. can anyone help at all?

[kjbunete]

I do not think that it is your NIC. Have you set your computer to the Workgroup for you collage? If you have not set a workgroup, you computer is lost in space, that is why you get all of that strange stuff.

[brothermerry]

I do not think that it is your NIC. Have you set your computer to the Workgroup for you collage? If you have not set a workgroup, you computer is lost in space, that is why you get all of that strange stuff.

I wasn't told a workgroup name. So that could be the problem, but i was having the same problem before when it was only two computers and they both were on the same workgroup. It was exactly the same.

[kjbunete]

Yes you need the have a workgroup name in order to join the network. And from the PC to anouther PC, did you make sure that you had a cross-over cable, and not a regular cable? A common mistake, only if on 10\100 NICs. You said that you have a 1000pro, they automaticly make a regular cable switch to a cross if it is needed. I do not know if that is only if it is to anouther 1000 Nic. I heard that it only work with anouther 1000, and anouther said it works both ways.

But anyway, Get a workgroup name in post back if it worked or not.

[brothermerry]

i changed the workgroup name to the same as my friend's which was just the default "WORKGROUP" and nothing happened. what's this about cables and the types i need? i've never heard of needing different types? could you tell me more about that if you think that could be the problem?

thanks

[sugil]

Have a look at Micorsoft Knowledge base Q318030

Make sure you put at leat one folder as "shared".

Good luck.