File Sharing Question

[mike]

We have a desktop and a laptop computer. Both are running with W XP
Home Edition. The desktop is connected to a router with an Ethernet
cable and the router is connected to a cable modem which gets the
desktop out to the WWW. The laptop is able to get to WWW wireless. All
of this works fine.
We are having trouble 'file sharing'. By file sharing I mean, I
want to be able to access a file that resides on the desktop from the
laptop. Or vice versa. To accomplish this I have used Windows Explorer
and selected a folder in My Documents. I then right click on the folder

and select Sharing and Security. On the sharing tab I select Share This

Folder On The Network, then Apply and OK. The drop down menu closes and

there is no error message. At this time I am assuming the folder has
been set up to be 'shared' by the other computer.
Now when I go to the other computer I am unable to find the shared
folder. I do not know if I did something wrong when I shared the
folder, in this example on the desktop, or if I am doing something
wrong on the reading computer, the laptop.

 

[Steve Cohen]

If you have a firewall, disable it on both machines and see if that makes a
difference.

Steve