home networking problem

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I have two computers set up and networked. both have W2Kpro. one is wired to
the router and the other is wireless. both are running sygate personnal
firewall. both are part of the same workgroup and when i go to my network
places i can see both. but if i try to access the wireless computer from the
wired one it tells me that "\\Alex is not accessible. the network path was
not found." going the other way from the wireless to the wired is no
problem. file and print sharing is installed on both. tcp/ip, netbeui,
ipx/spx are enabled. it is more of an annoyance than anything else as they
are only about 10 feet apart, but i just can't figure it out. any help is
very much appreciated.

kevin nelson
 
You first need to disable the personal firewalls on
both machines to make sure it isn't some configuration
problem with them that is the cause.

Otherwise, you can often work around this by first fixing
the IP addresses of the two machines (just hard-wire whatever
IP address, gateway, DNS, etc. you are getting from the router's DHCP
if you're using that.) If you're not using DHCP, nothing to do here.

Then, open the %windir%\system32\drivers\etc folder and
edit both HOSTS. and LMHOSTS. (You may need to copy
one or the other from the corresponding *.SAM sample that is there
if the files don't exist.)

Put in the IP-to-computername association for the other
remote machine. The comments in each file explain
what to do (sometimes just HOSTS is enough, so try just
that one first.)

This removes the dependency on browsing to locate the
other computer, which now can be found directly in the hosts
table, which is probably why things aren't working right.

Steve Duff, MCSE
Ergodic Systems, Inc.
 
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