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| Thread ID: 51220 | 2004-11-14 21:51:00 | Quick networking question | jaxson (3204) | Press F1 |
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| 292142 | 2004-11-14 21:51:00 | I have a few WinXP home PCs on a peer-to-peer network with a network printer and router/hub handling the ADSL connection. My laptop is wireless and connects to an access point, and has been fine for months - sharing files from one of the other machines and using the printers. Now, I can still connect to the web, but whenever I browse the network I cannot 'see' the workgroup. When I hit the shortcut to the shared folder I need to use, I get - "\\computer\folder is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Network path not found" Nothing has changed, and I can still 'ping' the machine. Any Ideas? It has to be something simple. I turned off the SP2 firewall on the 'sharing' machine, no effect. |
jaxson (3204) | ||
| 292143 | 2004-11-14 22:11:00 | Oh I'm so stupid. I forgot I had Norton Internet Security on. That stopped me browsing the network. *shoots self* I'll see if I can delete this thread. |
jaxson (3204) | ||
| 292144 | 2004-11-15 03:31:00 | I wouldnt disable Nortons if thats the only firewall u have. If you open it up and go to personal firewall/home networking, and click on Wizard, do any ips appear?? If so, click on next so the ip/s get added. Then the firewall will be enabled, and you'll still be able to share. |
Spacemannz (808) | ||
| 292145 | 2004-11-15 03:56:00 | I take it it was a Norton dialogue box you got. Does Norton's use Trusted Zones? If it does, ad your lappy to it. Essentially the same thing as Spacemanzz suggested but you should be able to have a look at everything that is trusted and adjust it if needs be (it's just me, I have an aversion to wizards for some things). Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 292146 | 2004-11-15 04:08:00 | I dont think Nortons brings up a dialog Murray. (Can't say I've seen it myself). If you dont add ips (on a network), to this part, you wont be able to access each other's folders. It's XP that brings up a message / dialog. If u had 3+ PC's and all had NIS (well 2003), my previous post would also apply. If u wanted to access each others folders, on a network. BUT NIS 2003 (dunno about later versions), as in the above post, lets u add local ips (192.168.0.1 etc and 255.255.255.0), if it detects that u have a NIC installed, and you're on a network. Not too sure if this applies to wireless tho, it MIGHT. |
Spacemannz (808) | ||
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