not see the the network

Not sure what I am doing wrong here but heres the situation.

Have a 8 port patch panel and naturally with corresponding wall jacks. Have right now 2 XP Pro machines and a DSL router and a Dlink 10/100 switch.

Have connected the DSL router to the switch and the individual rj45's to both the switch and the patch panel.

Nothing is seeing each other not even the workstations to access the dsl. Workgroups are the same on the machines. I can ping the router but unable to get the dsl working or to see the other xp machines.

What is it with xp that seems a little harder to configure than with 98 or 2000 ???

Any ideas let me know and right now am a little frustrated to think of anything more to add to this.

Thanks.

 

I can ping the router but unable to get the dsl working or to see the other xp machines

All the PCs can ping the router by IP?

Please do
ipconfig /all > c:\ipconfig.txt
from two of the PCs and post the contents of both text files.

Also ping the router and post that - or at least 10 responses with both packet sizes.
ping -t (router ip) > c:\pingit.txt
ping -l 1024 -t (router ip) > c:\pingit2.txt

Note that since you are piping the ping to a text file you won't see anything on screen so you'll probably need to remove a bunch of the responses after you stop the ping.

Sorry for the delayed response but been out of town fishing and relaxing.