Wireless laptop can't see Wireless Desktop

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Try these steps:

http://tinyurl.com/6v9cr

Carey

"Ciccu" <Ciccu@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have almost the same problem as dfatovic posted yesterday, and I went
> through the same steps but haven't fixed it yet.
>
> I have a wireless laptop that can connect to the Internet and can see the
> other wireless laptop on the network, but it cannot connect to the desktop
> computer or access it's folders or printer. The desktop computer can see
> the
> laptop.
>
> The laptop can ping the desktop computer. NetBIOS is enabled. The printer
> and all the files on the main computer are shared. There are no external
> firewalls, ony the XP firewall. I disabled it on both the laptop and
> desktop,
> but the laptop still couldn't access the desktop's resources.
>
> Both machines are running XP Home with SP2. It has worked fine in the
> past,
> I'm not sure what changed. Thanks for any suggestions. I went through
> Carey's
> step by step, but it didn't help.
>
> Alice

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Good to know! Thanks for the update.

Carey

"Ciccu" <Ciccu@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks Carey,
>
> I had already tried those steps before I posted.
>
> I have fixed the network now and did so by resetting the base station and
> reinstalling the the networking software. All machines can now connect to
> the
> Internet and can see the resources on all other computers.
>
> Full disclosure requires me to also note that I uninstalled Microsoft's
> Antispyware beta on the laptop that was having problems as well as the
> desktop. I'm not sure that was the issue as the other laptop on the
> network
> still has the Antispyware product running and never had any problems
> connecting to the network.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alice Ciccu (MS)
>
> "Carey Holzman" wrote:
>
>> Try these steps:
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/6v9cr
>>
>> Carey
>>
>> "Ciccu" <Ciccu@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:AE946B67-8822-43FF-A775-90E7B305E520@microsoft.com...
>> >I have almost the same problem as dfatovic posted yesterday, and I went
>> > through the same steps but haven't fixed it yet.
>> >
>> > I have a wireless laptop that can connect to the Internet and can see
>> > the
>> > other wireless laptop on the network, but it cannot connect to the
>> > desktop
>> > computer or access it's folders or printer. The desktop computer can
>> > see
>> > the
>> > laptop.
>> >
>> > The laptop can ping the desktop computer. NetBIOS is enabled. The
>> > printer
>> > and all the files on the main computer are shared. There are no
>> > external
>> > firewalls, ony the XP firewall. I disabled it on both the laptop and
>> > desktop,
>> > but the laptop still couldn't access the desktop's resources.
>> >
>> > Both machines are running XP Home with SP2. It has worked fine in the
>> > past,
>> > I'm not sure what changed. Thanks for any suggestions. I went through
>> > Carey's
>> > step by step, but it didn't help.
>> >
>> > Alice
>>
>>
>>