When I first set up the network, I could connect from the Xp machine to both 10 machines and vice-versa, but I could only connect from the windows 10 machines in one direction. I added the user accounts from windows 10 to my windows xp workgroup. The result of this is that I can communicate both ways for machine a to machine b but not reliably but I can't see my workgroup in windows Xp and I can't connect from windows 10 to windows xp. I simply want to create a home network, consisting of a windows XP machine and 2 windows 10 machines.
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Details required :. Cancel Submit. CmdrKeene MVP. Server Fault is a question and answer site for system and network administrators. It only takes a minute to sign up. Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. The hosts file doesn't work. No matter what I do, adding or removing entries in the file doesn't make any difference, pinging the added names times out.
Edit: Thanks for your answer guys, but the problem is more complicated than this. It seems I'll have to reinstall Windows. As another commenter noted, sometimes editors will try and impose their default extensions. Are you sure about the re-install?
I am all for it, I do it once or twice a year to clean the fluff, but what makes you think it will solve the issue with basically name resolution? Delete the " etc " folder and replace it " etc " from another user, who hots enterties are working fine. Had the same issue, after a new XP baseline was installed on my computer at work.
Tried flushing DNS cache, rebooting, etc, to no avail. Solution was to save hosts to hosts. If you entered the default IP for address, Instead do a nslookup and see if proper IP is being returned. The idea of hosts is not to block traffic, but to redirect addresses. The hosts file is for resolving the name to ip address. If your problem is a lack of reply and the address is correct then that is another problem. Use the -a option on the ping command 'ping -a ipaddress' to help you figure out the name resolution.
Make sure you don't have any trailing space after the hostname or it won't resolve either. If you have an entry like ' For some reason that worked just fine. Without it, the hosts file wont be used at all. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? One thing to note: be aware that your windows installation might be in a different folder then the one mentioned above.
If you double click the file and it asks which program to open this file with, select Notepad and make sure you leave the 'Always use the selected program to open this kind of file' box unchecked.
Once you've opened the file you should see a description with some examples at the top of the file and then depending on whether your hosts file has had entries added to it some numbers will be on the bottom. Note that any line starting with the symbol is a comment and therefore will not have any effect in other words it is harmless. For most users the only uncommented line i. This just refers to your own computer; Any other line that doesn't start with a can be deleted or if you're afraid to completely delete a line then just comment out the line using the symbol which will disable the entry.
Then if everything is working properly you can come back later and clean out unneeded lines. That's all there is to it. It's pretty simple to fix but a hosts file can cause a lot of problems if it is modified by a malicious program.
If you're still having problems, or if you're hosts fixes keep coming back then you probably have a larger problem in which case you may want to check out another Tech Help article on Spyware Removal.
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