Network off a network, but not a subnet mask

[Stephen Constantinou]

Dear Ioannis

Yes indeed it is on the PC and laptop

Efharisto

Stephen

Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> Stephen Constantinou wrote:
>> Dear Nils and Andrew
>>
>> Thanks for the input
>>
>> I disabled the firewall on the XP machine and tried again. 
>> Unfortunately I still could not connect to the XP machine from the 
>> laptop.  From the laptop I tried to ping 192.168.1.175, 192.168.1.1, 
>> 192.168.1.2. but the host is always unreachable.
>>
>> The XP file system is shared and when I put the laptop on the first 
>> network, the Smoothwall network, I can ping the XP machine, make a VNC 
>> connection to the XP from the laptop, and see and write to the XP file 
>> system.
>>
>> I cannot think of anything else to do.
>>
>> Any further help appreciated
> 
> 
> The subnet mask should be 255.255.255.0.
>