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I've networked my home computers and they are sharing a DSL
internet connection.
Now....how can I share files or transfer files between the
three networked computers. Everytime I try to access
another computer I get an error message telling me "Access
deined".
I don't have "permission". As far as I can tell, all the
computers are set up to allow complete access.....no
private files, etc.
DO I have to have XP Professional installed to do this ?
All I really want to do is transfer files between a desktop
and a laptop.

Help
 
Here's the deal, first make sure you have a common
workgroup on your computers. Next it depends on how you
are sharng your DSL connection, if you are using the
simple DSL modem that is supplied via the DSL provider,
most only have 1 RJ45 jack to connect 1 computer. Assuming
that you have a router with several jacks and you
connected all computers to it via CAT5 network cable and
you have a NIC card on each computer. Once connected each
computer should have it's own IP address. To see what your
address is at that moment click on START, RUN, type
COMMAND or CMD and press ok. A Window pops up in that
window type (ipconfig)you will see several lines come up
IP Address, this is your address for that computer, the
next line Subnet Mask dont worry about and the Default
Gateway is your router for you local network. Ok lets say
your address is 192.168.1.100 for this computer. Repeat
the same command on the other computers to find out their
address. They most like will be something like
192.168.1.101 and 192.168.1.102. Next try to PING each one
from the same window you opened for IPCONFIG, Example
(ping 192.168.1.101) you should see several lines with a
REPLY if not, oops something is wrong. Try to ping your
router (ping 192.168.1.1) if a reply comes back good. If
you can ping all computers then there are 3 ways of
finding the other computers, one is to click on START -
RUN in the white box type \\192.168.1.101 or anyone of the
ip addresses for the other computer. You will see nothing
for a bit so just sit back and wait for a few moments. If
the systems are seeing each other then a window will pop
up either asking you to login in or showing you the
resources available on the other computer.
Or you can Click on My Network Places and search the
Entire network.
If by chance you used Internet Sharing on one computer
that is connected to the DSL Modem a whole different story
since Internet sharing assigns it's own IP address group
like 192.168.0.1 and so on.
Make sure you logon to all computers with the same name or
create accounts on each computer for each user.

Have fun
 
Larry - this was very helpful. I have a similar
problem. How important are your last two paragraphs?

On my network, machine A (XP) can see Machine B (ME) just
fine. From Machine B, I can ping machine A, but not
access it from Internet Explorer.
Thanks for any thoughts.
Paul
 
"BobM" said:
I've networked my home computers and they are sharing a DSL
internet connection.
Now....how can I share files or transfer files between the
three networked computers. Everytime I try to access
another computer I get an error message telling me "Access
deined".
I don't have "permission". As far as I can tell, all the
computers are set up to allow complete access.....no
private files, etc.
DO I have to have XP Professional installed to do this ?
All I really want to do is transfer files between a desktop
and a laptop.

Help
Click to expand...

You don't need XP Professional. All versions of Windows can network
with each other and share files.

The answer to your question depends on how your computers share the
DSL connection.

If you have a broadband router, or if one computer is configured as an
Internet Connection Sharing host, all that should be needed is to run
XP's Network Setup Wizard on each computer and choose the right answer
when it asks how the computer connects to the Internet:

XP ICS - Starting the Network Setup Wizard
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/xp_ics/networksetupwiz.htm

If that doesn't solve the problem, please reply to this message in the
news group (not by E-mail) with more information to help other people
understand the problem. For example:

How do the computers share the DSL connection? How is the network
wired -- what connects to what?

Un-install all firewall programs while troubleshooting the network.
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