Files and Transfer Wizard

[Vernon Balbert]

I'm helping a friend set up a new system. First, the details:

Old system: 2.54 GHz Celeron running Windows XP Home.
New System: 3.04 GHz Pentium 4 running Windows XP Professional

These systems are connected via an Airlink 101 AR525W router via CAT5
cable. Neither system is using WiFi. The new computer's IP address is
192.168.1.101. The old computer is 192.168.1.102.

The problem: When I run the Files and Settings Transfer Wizard on the
old computer the wizard has the network setting grayed out. According
to the Microsoft knowledge base the problem is caused by the two
computers being on different subnets. However, this isn't the case. I
can ping both computers with no problem and TRACERT shows only one hop
to the other machine. I can map the drives to the other computer and
access them with no problem.

So what could be the problem here?

 

[Ron Martell]

I'm helping a friend set up a new system. First, the details:

Old system: 2.54 GHz Celeron running Windows XP Home.
New System: 3.04 GHz Pentium 4 running Windows XP Professional

These systems are connected via an Airlink 101 AR525W router via CAT5
cable. Neither system is using WiFi. The new computer's IP address is
192.168.1.101. The old computer is 192.168.1.102.

The problem: When I run the Files and Settings Transfer Wizard on the
old computer the wizard has the network setting grayed out. According
to the Microsoft knowledge base the problem is caused by the two
computers being on different subnets. However, this isn't the case. I
can ping both computers with no problem and TRACERT shows only one hop
to the other machine. I can map the drives to the other computer and
access them with no problem.

So what could be the problem here?

Here is how I do these transfers.

1. Create a folder named Transfer on the old machine.
2. Make sure that the new machine can access this folder with full
read/write privileges.
3. Run the FASTW on the old machine and tell it to save the results
in the Transfer folder you created in step 1.
4. When that is finished start the FASTW on the new machine and tell
it to import the saved information over the network from the Transfer
folder.

Good luck

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
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Microsoft MVP (1997 - 2006)
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