From: "Gary Britt" 

Make sure file and printer sharing is turned on, on the NT box under
network properties page.  I hope I just didn't insult you. 

Cheers,

Gary

"Randall Parker"
 wrote in
message news:40f43cb2{at}w3.nls.net...
> I'm trying to walk my 84 year old father over the phone into getting his
new WinXP
> machine and his old NT machine to see each other with Network Neighborhood
so we can
> move over his email stuff. Well, this is not easy.
>
> If an NT box and a WXP box can't see each other in Network Neighborhood
what is the
> most likely cause?
>
> I recall the last time I've wrestled with WinXP and file sharing (I
usually have NT
> and Win2k in front of me) I had to delete some damned bridge. ("has anyone
seen the
> bridge?") Can the 1394 protocol stuff be getting the way? I had him
disable it. He
> sees no bridge.
>
> The two machines are connected via twisted pair. Maybe I should assign an
IP address
> to the new box and have them ping each other to verify the crossover cable
is working
> properly? He sees green lights when he plugs in the cables.
>
> This page says NetBEUI is no longer supported. Could it be that somehow
the NT and XP
> boxes are trying to do network neighborhood in different ways?
> http://www.wown.com/j_helmig/winxpnet.htm
>
> I need some more ideas to try short of flying a few thousand miles to
Florida...

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