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teabag
Greetings,
I'm new here. Please give me a steer if I have come to the wrong place.
One new desktop and one new laptop both Intel duo core and each running
Windows Vista Home Premium.
A DLink router is wired to the Hewlett-Packard desktop and wireless linked
to the Toshiba A200 Laptop; each machine can access the web without problem.
In network and sharing centre each machine can see itself and says it can
see the other machine.
In Windows Explorer the laptop can see the desktop machine and the shared
folders and files on it.
But the desktop CAN NOT see the laptop's shared folders and files.
Using network sharing centre diagnose and repair (on the desktop) produces
"\\Laptop name is not a valid host name", and ultimately throws up the page
about DNS issues - which does not help.
Windows and Norton firewall settings etc are set exactly the same on the two
machines.
What am I doing wrong? How can I force the desktop to re-acquire the laptop?
TIA
Rednelle
I'm new here. Please give me a steer if I have come to the wrong place.
One new desktop and one new laptop both Intel duo core and each running
Windows Vista Home Premium.
A DLink router is wired to the Hewlett-Packard desktop and wireless linked
to the Toshiba A200 Laptop; each machine can access the web without problem.
In network and sharing centre each machine can see itself and says it can
see the other machine.
In Windows Explorer the laptop can see the desktop machine and the shared
folders and files on it.
But the desktop CAN NOT see the laptop's shared folders and files.
Using network sharing centre diagnose and repair (on the desktop) produces
"\\Laptop name is not a valid host name", and ultimately throws up the page
about DNS issues - which does not help.
Windows and Norton firewall settings etc are set exactly the same on the two
machines.
What am I doing wrong? How can I force the desktop to re-acquire the laptop?
TIA
Rednelle