Help me on how to allow other compts to access my shared compt

[Vito Corleone]

Hi there,

could any of you show me on how to allow other compts to
access my shared drive.

I am running windows XP Pro others are running windows XP
Pro & 2000. Other compts can access each other and do
files transfer but not my compt.

I created a shared drive on my compt but can not find
others when I did a search and other could not find my
compt name, either.

thanx in advance

Vito

 

[Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP Windows Shell/User\)]

Have you run the network setup wizard on your system and all other computers
with which you wish to share access. Go to Control Panel, open Network
Connections, you should see a link in the left pane to set up a home
network, click it and run the wizard, at the end it will give you the option
to place the wizard on a floppy so you can run the wizard on the other
computers on the network. When you run the wizard, make sure any firewalls
on all systems are shutdown. Also, during the wizard you will be asked how
this computer connects to the Internet. An incorrect response will block
all access. Usually, the correct response is "Gateway."

 

[Peter Hutchison]

Hi there,

could any of you show me on how to allow other compts to
access my shared drive.

I am running windows XP Pro others are running windows XP
Pro & 2000. Other compts can access each other and do
files transfer but not my compt.

I created a shared drive on my compt but can not find
others when I did a search and other could not find my
compt name, either.

1. Right click My Computer, select Properties
2. Select 'Computer Name'
3. Click Change
4. Enter a Computer name
5. Change Workgroup name to same one as one the 2000 Pro PCs

Peter Hutchison
Windows FAQ
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