Setting up Home Network.

[Bridget060504]

Ok at home I have one desktop, a router and a laptop. The laptop and Desktop
share the printer hooked to the desktop as well as some file sharing. In the
past I have had to shut off firewall in setting it up.

At work (on location) there is a desktop with printer and router. I
networked a laptop so it can view and use the printer and the 2 computers
will be sharing files.

I know want to bring my original laptop (in first paragraph) to this
location and either add it to that existing network, or create a new one,
with either all 3 computers, or just the desktop and my laptop from home as
the other laptop may or may not be here at times.

I can't get it to work. My home laptop only seems to show shared files from
my home. The other 2 computers at my office location that were hooked up
previously can still see each other and use the printer, but my home laptop
can't see either computer or printer and no computer can see it either.

Any help???

All are Dell.

 

[Robert L. \(MS-MVP\)]

Do you receive a system error if you run net view on the laptop in the
office?

--
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Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on
http://www.ChicagoTech.net
How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on
http://www.HowToNetworking.com

 

[Lem]

Ok at home I have one desktop, a router and a laptop. The laptop and Desktop
share the printer hooked to the desktop as well as some file sharing. In the
past I have had to shut off firewall in setting it up.

At work (on location) there is a desktop with printer and router. I
networked a laptop so it can view and use the printer and the 2 computers
will be sharing files.

I know want to bring my original laptop (in first paragraph) to this
location and either add it to that existing network, or create a new one,
with either all 3 computers, or just the desktop and my laptop from home as
the other laptop may or may not be here at times.

I can't get it to work. My home laptop only seems to show shared files from
my home. The other 2 computers at my office location that were hooked up
previously can still see each other and use the printer, but my home laptop
can't see either computer or printer and no computer can see it either.

Any help???

All are Dell.

There are really too many possibilities to start guessing, but as a
start, post the results of ipconfig /all on the laptop both at home and
at the job site. How did you set up the job site network? The brands of
the computers are not as important as what operating system they have
(all of them).

How to get text from ipconfig /all into a newsgroup post:
http://digitalmediaphile.wordpress.com/ipconfig-all-how-to-get-text-output/
--
Lem -- MS-MVP

To the moon and back with 2K words of RAM and 36K words of ROM.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer
http://history.nasa.gov/afj/compessay.htm

 

[Bridget060504]

Well I was able to dot hat IP Config on one of the laptops but not mine. WHen
i run it I have no way to copy it. I am pretty good with computers but the
part where you select all and then copy - it blinks white for the shortest
second and then goes back to black and I have no time to copy/paste. Any
ideas??

All the computers run XP.

All of the computers can see the main computer. But my laptop can not be
seen by either computer.