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Do I have enough equipment to network my computers.
I have broadband cable from the wall into the cable modem. From the modem
it goes to the 624 Dlink router. From the router there is cat 5 cable hooked to the computer ethernet card. In another room I have a desktop with a wireless PCI adapter. The internet connection on both is good but I want to share files between the computers. I have followed all the instructions to set up the network according to the XP PRO network wizard and have verified that both computers are sharing files. They are using the same network default name of MSHOME. Is it possible this is a hardware issue if both computers can connect to the internet or does it sound like a setup problem. Any help would be appreciated. Jimminy Cricket |
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I have followed all the instructions to set up the network according to the
XP PRO network wizard and have verified that both computers are sharing files. They are using the same network default name of MSHOME. Is it possible this is a hardware issue if both computers can connect to the internet or does it sound like a setup problem. Any help would be appreciated. Sounds like a setup problem to me. Do the machines have passwords set up for the user accounts - a recent post said something about possibly needing to set up an account with the same details on the other machines for XP Pro (no need in XP Home - I did it the other day to a win98se machine) Do you have a firewall on either machine at present ? (if so, it might be worth disabling it for now to eliminate that from the possible list of problems) Can you ping either machine from the other one ? -- Please add "[newsgroup]" in the subject of any personal replies via email --- My new email address has "ngspamtrap" & @btinternet.com in it ;-) --- |
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The XP Firewall stops file sharing.
Also, did you actually Share any drives and folders? Have to do that. Tom "Colin Wilson" wrote in message t... I have followed all the instructions to set up the network according to the XP PRO network wizard and have verified that both computers are sharing files. They are using the same network default name of MSHOME. Is it possible this is a hardware issue if both computers can connect to the internet or does it sound like a setup problem. Any help would be appreciated. Sounds like a setup problem to me. Do the machines have passwords set up for the user accounts - a recent post said something about possibly needing to set up an account with the same details on the other machines for XP Pro (no need in XP Home - I did it the other day to a win98se machine) Do you have a firewall on either machine at present ? (if so, it might be worth disabling it for now to eliminate that from the possible list of problems) Can you ping either machine from the other one ? -- Please add "[newsgroup]" in the subject of any personal replies via email --- My new email address has "ngspamtrap" & @btinternet.com in it ;-) --- |
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