can't get network to work

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Mike Hollywood

I finally bit the bullet and tried to set up a network between my laptop and
my pc.
XP pro on tower, XP home on laptop.
I followed the setup wifi home network wizard's advice and used a USB flash
drive.
I ran the wizard on the tower, and transferred the settings to the laptop.
That's as far as I got. The laptop can't see the PC and the PC can't see
the laptop.
The troube shooting guide had me changing this name, and that name, so now I
don't know what anything's name is anymore. Except my own, and I'm not
completly sure of that either. ;)

Is there any step by step explainations somewhere that tells in ordinary
english
what is going on? I don't mean down to the bits and bytes level, just what
is
going on so I can set up a home network? The stuff I found assumed I know
more than I do.

I think I'm supposed to somehow make a name for the network and use
it on both computers, and also give each computer a name that is unique.
That's about all I was able to figure out, but I haven't figured out how to
do it.

Finally, is there a way to erase what I've done so far and start over,
or am I stuck in endlessly trying to untangle what I already did?

Thanks in advance to anyone willing to help me in my futile, moronic
endeavers.

Mike
 
I forgot to mention in my original post that
I had previously set up a wifi router for sharing a broadband internet
account. That still works fine.
To keep things simple, I left the encryption stuff
turned off in the router, and in both computers, and
I said no when the wizard asked to turn it on.

mike
 
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