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Below are a few sites which give instructions on how to share files/printers
across 2 or more machines running XP home edition. Please follow the
instructions to see if that helps.

A Microsoft MVP site: http://www.ezlan.net/basic.html
Microsoft sites:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads [...] laylang=en

Thanks,
Anusha

"swede1960" <swede1960@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7F1D1B9B-F026-42F0-BAAF-C47BF33E9A26@microsoft.com...
> One computer running XP home edition connected to internet with a Linksys
> 802B with 4 ports which is connected to cabel modem.
>
> Laptop with a wireless Linksys card.
>
> I can connect to internet from either machine. BUT I can't get the
> network
> set up between the 2. I ran the network wizart and copied to USB to
> install
> on LP. Both machines say successfully installed. File sharing is enabled
> on
> both and the MS firewall is turned off.
>
> Net View from CMD says "This service has not been started." Since both
> can
> access internet I feel something isn't set on the XP computer. I found
> some
> stuff that referred to services folder in control panel. I don't have
> such a
> folder. Can anyone help?