Hi All,
I just set up my .11b LAN, it's an ad-hoc network between 2 pcs, an XP pro and an XP home SP1.Finally I managed to get them to connect and after some more fiddling they both have IP adresses, no authentication or any of that -I don't need it where I live. I know they are connected because they say 'connected' and I can play LAN games between them.....but they can't actually see each other, By that I mean that in "my network places" the other computer will not appear, even though they have the same workgroup and everything. Pinging the IPs works, but pinging the names of the computers do not. It's so frustrating! It means that ICS doesn't work either and I can't shut down the ICS computer from the other one, and the main reason for me buying all this stuff was so I could get the internet in my upstairs computer [btw, at the moment they're sitting next to each other for ease of configuration]. I know it's not a firewall problem.

What am I doing wrong?

thanks

fraktal