Wireless XP wireless help needed

[caveman]

Hi

I'm running a PC and a laptop, both with winXP Home. The PC has \ dlink
DI624 wireless router, and the laptop has a dlink airplus dwlg650. The
current situation is the following:

The problem is I can't get the PCs to see each other on the network and
therefore can't share files, even after unsharing and sharing.

The following is the state of both computers:

I can access the internet through my broadband modem (dsl 300G+) from both
PC and laptop
Both PC and laptop can ping themselves and the router, but NOT each other
The dhcp server is asigning IP addressess correctly and the addresses are in
the same subnet
I have internet connection firewall turned off on my PC. There is no option
to turn it off on my laptop.
I have enabled NetBios on both PCs
I have rebooted the computers more times than I can remember!
I have turned off all encryption during troubleshooting
Both computers are in the same workgroup and have unique names

I've read all the networking pages I can find, even Steve W's excellent
practically networked and no use. One last avenue I was wondering. I can't
seem to turn the router's own firewall off. Could this be why the PCs can't
see each other.

Also, I recently upgraded my desktop to winxp from win98se. I had the
network working intermittently on win98SE and then upgraded to winxp when I
started having network problems.

Please does anyone have any ideas? I've run network wizard on both
computers many times, logged off, logged on etc but to no avail. really
grateful for any ideas.

Thanks

Chris

 

[Ankit Shah]

Your desktop and your Laptops are under two different
workgroups. What you need to do is make them the same
workgroup. If you can ping each other then you can see
each other. To prove it do this:

1 double click on my computer from your laptop.
2 Click on the address bar erase my computer and type the
follwing "\\<computer name of Desktop>
3 if that works then you are good to go. Just rename the
workgroup.
Ankit Shah