Home computer network help

[jkern]

i cannot make my computer file share... here is some background. i have a desktop cabled to my wireless router and a printer cabled to it as well. i also have a laptop that has a wireless connection. the printer will print from both computers and the internet is accessiable from both. i am trying to map a netowrk drive to each computer so that i have access to the laptop drive from the desktop and vice versa. i had this working fine before, then i had to reconfigure for remote access at work. now that i am trying to revert back to my own system it will not work. here is what i have done: both computers are named. both are in the "mshome" workgroup. i have turned the firewalls off and disabled the virus software on both computers. i can VNC each computer, but i cannot map the drives and share files between them. the file an print sharing is turned on. when i look at the mshome network place it is empty.



any thoughts or help here... i am usually quite good with computer issues, but i have been working on this about 4+ hours with no results... what am i missing?



PS Windows XP pro SP2 on both machines.



thanks!

 

[TORQUE THIS]

I believe you have to go in and make sure your "C:" drive is set for sharing.

 

[jkern]

yep... it is already set up for sharing, has the little hand under it.

 

[p-Bar]

How about your firewall, also check the windows one in your control panel

 

[surfbeetle]

You will need to have the same username and password available on both computers even if you don't currenly log in using it. Also you must have a password, not a blank password. There is a group policy set by default that prevents a connection to a local file share if the password is blank. The easiest thing to do is just create an account on each computer that is the same for both computers username and password. Then when you connect from one to the other, use that username and password when you connect.

 

[jkern]

well guys none of this is working... i have all the firewalls off. i can ping each computer with a command prompt and have 0% loss, so i know they can talk to each other, but still don't show in in the MSHOME network places. the are both part of the same worgroup and network.

 

[surfbeetle]

The next step if you can ping, is to go to attempt to connect via ip address. Go to your start menu, to the run command and type \\x. x. x. x where the x. x. x. x equals your ip address from the other computer you wish to connect to.

 

[Joe G.]

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