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| 235599 | 2004-05-10 14:03:00 | Hi, I ve set up a ad Hoc wireless (802.11b) network at home. Both of my machines are running WinXP Professional, and I share my jetstart DSL connection. Everything works fine (connection sharing, pinging each other etc ...) apart from 1 thing. No matter how hard I try, I can't seem to share the files on my client computer, i.e. when I go into my network place...all I can see is the file shared by the server computer. I have made sure that they are in the same work group (MSHOME), and I ve ran out of ideas to try. In fact on my client computer I can go "search for computers" and I ll find it in MSHOME, but when I actually open up MSHOME under My Network Place all I see is my server computer. I do the same on my server computer and I can only find the server computer. As I said before..the connection is definitely working, I can ping each other and share the internet, my client can access the file on my server etc. So, if any of you know what's going on please let me know! Cheers! |
Kenshin (2501) | ||
| 235600 | 2004-05-10 20:00:00 | going from previous posts in this forum on xp networking I think if You neeed the guest account to be enabled to see the contents of another XP client PC on a network or have the exact same account ie name and password on the other PC whose resources you are trying to browse. Do a search of the forum just to confirm what I am saying and also sure that one of the forummemembers who have experance in xp networking will help also try searching Google good luck |
beama (111) | ||
| 235601 | 2004-05-10 21:34:00 | First thing to check is ensure that Windows XP's firewalls are disabled. | Susan B (19) | ||
| 235602 | 2004-05-10 22:43:00 | did you use the wizard on both pc's ?? i have found the networking dosn't work well if you try to set it up manually (grr at MS). also i personally would not use tcp/ip for windows networking. ipx/spx dos a better job (imho) and gets around problems with firewalls and spyware etc. |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 235603 | 2004-05-10 23:51:00 | Have you shared the drive on the client. | mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 235604 | 2004-05-11 01:03:00 | small thing here.... don't share c drive. share a data folder not the whole drive. shareing c drive makes a hackers job so much easier ;-) |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 235605 | 2004-05-11 01:05:00 | > did you use the wizard on both pc's ?? i have found > the networking dosn't work well if you try to set it > up manually (grr at MS). fully agree but don't know why. > also i personally would not use tcp/ip for windows > networking. ipx/spx dos a better job (imho) and gets > around problems with firewalls and spyware etc. You mean, with ipx/spx, I can enable the XPs firewall? Maybe, I should give it a go. |
bk T (215) | ||
| 235606 | 2004-05-11 01:16:00 | don't forget to set frame type and netbios over ipx/spx. you can then unbind tcp/ip from windows networking (see grc.com). not sure if enabling XP firewall will block ICS tho. |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 235607 | 2004-05-11 01:49:00 | A few random thoughts: Change the workgroup name to something other than MSHOME . Dunno why, just seems to work better with just HOME, or JESTERVILLE etc . Go figure . Share at least one folder on each machine - by right clicking it in explorer and selecting the sharing option . It the folder is in Program files or Windows folders it may have access problems . Make sure a hand shows under it in explorer . You do not need guest accounts and password for file sharing - unless you are wishing to access those folders in Program files or Windows folders . Even then, there isn't always an issue, or hasn't been in any ad hoc network set up here . Ensure, as mentioned before, that firewalls are off, in particular the XP built in Firewall . You can re-enable another firewall (Zonealarm, Kerio, Sygate etc) after it is running correctly and see if it still works . I found Zonealarm problematic with home networking Stay away from using NetBios or IPX etc for now, at lesast till you get it all working . TCP is the way that the machines look for each other . TCP should be all you need to communicate . As I understand, NetBios and IPX are older protocols and running too many protocols slows down network speed (in my experience anyway, after enabling IPX to play an older game over the network) . Rather than looking for the computers under 'My Network Places', use windows key and E, then look in there under 'My Network Places' . J :D |
Jester (13) | ||
| 235608 | 2004-05-11 01:55:00 | If you are using XP with 'Simple file sharing enabled' then you may have all sorts of problems, similar to this. | BIFF (1) | ||
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