networking

[aecorbet]

I have a laptop connected to my desktop by an ethernet cable. The problem is that after running network wizard more times than than I can recall there are no workgroup icons or communication between computers. I have XPon both

 

[Stevecook]

Your firewall may be blocking the connection, check to see your exceptions.

 

[scriptghost]

try this

yes possibly your firewall, however you can bypass the workgroup, go to your desktop comp, go to command prompt type ipconfig and get the local ip or manualy do it from your tcp/ip protocol:

example comp1(desktop): 10.0.0.1 laptop is 10.0.0.2, from your laptop go to run and type \\10.0.0.1\ (then press enter or whatever)

if nothing works and you know you dont have a firewall running go to control panel -> admin tools-> services: then make sure network connections is started, i have worked on manufactured pcs w/ wiindows Xp, that disable these settings such as dell

 

[aecorbet]

I pinged both computers switched on microsoft network sharing and ms file & printer sharing which I`d been advised to switch off and it now works I still canot be sure where the gltch was but the Laptop is a dell Latitude 505

 

[scriptghost]

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glad to know you got it working, it can be very frustrating