Home Networking Wizard Issue

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Darren Franklin

I have connected my kids PC to mine via a LinkSys
Cable/DSL Router so that both can share the internet.

All Works fine apart from the fact that I cannot setup a
home network thus the two PCs cannot see each other (Mine:
Win XP HE, kids Win98 SE).

Every time I run the Home Networking Wizard on my PC, it
crashes part way through with a message regards the
spooler subsystem app having to close. Following this I
still get the option to create a network setup floppy. I
created the floppy and ran it on the Win 98SE PC no
problem at all.

Looking on the MS KB only gives references to printing
problems and not home network setup issues.

I should also add that my printer becomes shared and the
ethernet card suddenly has its firewall turned on
(previously turned off). It does this everytime I run the
wizard.

Please advise further on what the problem could be.

Regards

Darren
 
Hi, Darren -

I've seen this a few times but haven't seen a fix - but
maybe someone else has.

What I normally do is stop the spooler service before
running the networking wizard - this seems to work for
me. Here's whatcha do -

1. Open a command prompt window.

2. Type "net stop spooler" (without quotes) and hit the
enter key. This will stop the spooler service.

3. Run the networking wizard.

4. Restart the spooler service by typing "net start
spooler" at a command prompt or by rebooting the machine.

hth -
 
I too am experiencing this problem and it seems that a
few of my friends are aswell. But i have found no
solution at the moment.

Broadband router in use with 3 wireless devices , 2
desktop machines and 1 laptop. All access the net fine
and perform normal tasks , print sharing works fine.

Only problem is, the computers do not see each other on a
local network at all, also unable to see any shared
folders.

Each machine has IP add , i am able to ping the router ,
but unable to ping each machine with specified IP
address. Doesnt seem to think they are there.

Any help or light that can be shed is much appreciated.

thanks.
 
Brett said:
I too am experiencing this problem and it seems that a
few of my friends are aswell. But i have found no
solution at the moment.
Click to expand...

One thing that many people do, myself included, is whizz through the setup
routine because we "know it all" and it is dead easy. In doing that, we
forget to read the panels on the screen. So, when the "easy" turned to
"hard", I actually did the amazing and stopped to read all the panels
properly and found out the obvious - when setting up a network, anything you
want to share on the network needs to be on and running EXCEPT a firewall.
ALL firewalls must be OFF, Internet ON, shared printers and other shared
devices ON, all computers that will be on the network ON and running.

Once all that stuff is on, THEN start the networking wizard. It works every
single time, then but doesn't work properly otherwise, assuming there are no
Windows problems that may affect it on your computer. Once the main computer
that has the modem connected to it and presumably will be used for ICS has
gone through the wizard and all works, it MAY or may NOT require rebooting.
Make sure you have made up the network floppy first. If it requires
rebooting, do that and bring everything up, Internet and other devices
attached to this machine and insert the floppy in the next machine and run
it. Reboot if necessary and then move on to the next machine in the LAN etc.

Assuming, once more, you have no Windows problems affecting the setup of a
LAN and ICS, it works from there. Miss any of the salient points such as NO
FIREWALL ON while setting up OR forgetting to turn on another machine on the
LAN etc and it gives you problems.

I know you may think this has been silly/stupid and that you may have tried
it already but try it once more, this time setting up slowly and doing it by
reading the panels that come up each time and doing it the way it says.
Solved ALL the setup problems I had been having.
 
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