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I have a friend who has DirecWay satellite service, and has just gotten
a second computer to go on the internet at home.
He bought a wireless Linksys router, and his main (old) computer is
hardwired to the router, and his new laptop is wireless.
Each PC is running Windows XP Home, and each is capable of accessing the
internet and receiving email and web surfing right now, independently of
each other.
However, he wants to share files and printers between the two, but we've
not been able to get them to do so (yet).
We've gone thru the obvious stuff on the configuration, but so far, have
not hit anything that would work.
The laptop is able to ping (by IP address) the old computer, but is not
able to ping it by resolving the name. The old computer cannot ping the
laptop by either IP address or by name.
To my knowledge, we've disabled all the firewall settings on both of
them, have enabled the guest account for each of them, but still cannot
even ping each way, much less share files between them.
My friend lives 400 miles away, and I cannot get in front of the machine
to troubleshoot it, but am running out of ideas on getting two Windows
XP Home systems to see each other on this network (my experience is with
xp pro).
Any idea what's going on with this? Help!!
SC
I have a friend who has DirecWay satellite service, and has just gotten
a second computer to go on the internet at home.
He bought a wireless Linksys router, and his main (old) computer is
hardwired to the router, and his new laptop is wireless.
Each PC is running Windows XP Home, and each is capable of accessing the
internet and receiving email and web surfing right now, independently of
each other.
However, he wants to share files and printers between the two, but we've
not been able to get them to do so (yet).
We've gone thru the obvious stuff on the configuration, but so far, have
not hit anything that would work.
The laptop is able to ping (by IP address) the old computer, but is not
able to ping it by resolving the name. The old computer cannot ping the
laptop by either IP address or by name.
To my knowledge, we've disabled all the firewall settings on both of
them, have enabled the guest account for each of them, but still cannot
even ping each way, much less share files between them.
My friend lives 400 miles away, and I cannot get in front of the machine
to troubleshoot it, but am running out of ideas on getting two Windows
XP Home systems to see each other on this network (my experience is with
xp pro).
Any idea what's going on with this? Help!!
SC