Wireless network. connecting to pc and sharing files.

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Csan anyone help ?. Ive just set up a wireless ADSL router to share my
broadband connection which works fine both the desktop and wireless laptop
can surf the net ok. The problem is that i want the laptop to have access to
the shared folder and printer on the desktop. both cmputers are in the same
work group (MSHOME) the laptop has xp pro and the desktop xphome. The desktop
can ping the laptop ok but the laptop cannot ping the desktop. when i log on
to the laptop and search for computers near near me it finds the desktop but
when i try to brouse it says that i do not have permission see you
administrator. Both computers are set up with identicle user accounts. ive
run the network setup wizard but still no joy can anyone shed some light on
this frustrating problem.

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Steve,

Let's get put some joy back into networking! I understand the problem, and
think you have
described it quite well. I'd first like to caution that if ping does not
work, there are only problems ahead.
Let's get ping working. First, how are you pinging?
1) Try with the IP Address of the machine
Doing a "ipconfig" from a cmd.exe window, you will be able to get the
address of the machine. Do this for both
and make sure each machine can ping the other with the other's
respective IP address.

2) Try using the name of the machine
Now try ping using the computer name. The address that is resolved from
each machine should be the same as from part 1.
ping mylaptop
Pinging mylaptop .. [10.0.0.1] with 32 bytes of data:
Make sure that the addresses are the same. 10.0.0.1 should be the
address I saw when I did "ipconfig" on the laptop.

3) Make sure that if there is a firewall on each machine, that it is
configured to allow these networking protocols.
In XP SP2 this is important. Having the firewall set to "No Exceptions"
cuts the machine off (and also makes it very safe). In the Firewall tab of
the Network Connection property page, Enable Exceptions and select MS
File/Printer sharing from the allowed protocols list in the "Exceptions"
Tab. Also, in the "Advanced" tab, enable ICMP responses (just the top
check box in the list, so that the machine will respond to pings).

4) Try doing the pings again. If this works, try the final test from the
cmd.exe window:
from the desktop:
net view \\mylaptop
from the laptop
net new \\desktop

You should be able to see the shared resources on these machine.
Hope this helps.


--
Brian Wehrle
bwehrle@online.microsoft.com
Software Test Engineer/Wireless Networking
Microsoft Corp.




"Steve" <Steve@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Csan anyone help ?. Ive just set up a wireless ADSL router to share my
> broadband connection which works fine both the desktop and wireless laptop
> can surf the net ok. The problem is that i want the laptop to have access
> to
> the shared folder and printer on the desktop. both cmputers are in the
> same
> work group (MSHOME) the laptop has xp pro and the desktop xphome. The
> desktop
> can ping the laptop ok but the laptop cannot ping the desktop. when i log
> on
> to the laptop and search for computers near near me it finds the desktop
> but
> when i try to brouse it says that i do not have permission see you
> administrator. Both computers are set up with identicle user accounts.
> ive
> run the network setup wizard but still no joy can anyone shed some light
> on
> this frustrating problem.