Network off a network, but not a subnet mask

[Ioannis Vranos]

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.