98SE & ME problem

Folks, here's a wierd one. We have a Win98SE network at the job. Three nodes and all see each other fine. One of these is a SONY Vaio with a built-in 100Mbps VE netcard. Everything works fine there. At home, I have a HP Pavilion with a built-in 100Mbps card. This one is using @Home for the internet. Here's the rub... The Vaio can't see the HP. The HP can see itself but not the Vaio. I don't want to share the internet, just share the files between the computers.

FYI: Pavilion (2 net cards, HP 100Mbps, 3COM 3C509B combo TCP/IP and netbui installed).
Vaio (100Mbps VE TCP/IP and netbui installed). I have checked the workgroup names, and bound protocols. All seem right. the Vaio works fine on the job but not at home.

well you need to check a few things first..

Try to ping the address of the computer..
(use a large ping to see if there are any network problems..)

Ping -l 1470 -w 5000 -t 192.168.0.1 use your

IPs)

if that works try to Ping the Netbios name instead of the address.

are you using Share level security in Both machines ?

can you access the computer using UNC path ?
(\\server\share)

make sure both machines are running Client for M$ networks and File and print sharing for M$ networks.

Make sure one machine is set as browse master (properties of file and print sharing) and the others are set to OFF or NO..

Make sure your Computer names are valid (no spaces or special characters)

Make sure you workgroup name is valid..

make sure both computers use the same subnet mask and Ip range...

I have had this happen before also. I would make sure that you a sharing a dir on both machines and that will force the machines to see each other. Hope this helps.

Unfortunately I know what your problem is. @Home blocks Netbios traffic on their service. TCP/IP ports 136-139 to be exact. They do this for security reasons. You will not be able to see computers or shares on your system at home from other remote systems. You can install Windows 2000 on a system at work and on your system at home and the two will communicate like you want. Windows 2000 does Netbios over TCP/IP on different ports than the norm and they are not blocked by @home.