pinging but cannot map network drive

[Aardvark]

Dear all,

I am confused and befuddled! I have a desktop connected to a laptop via a
cross cable. The TCP/IP have been manually configured (automatic did not
work, no idea why) and both pc's reach each other in both directions when I
ping.

I have shared the cd drive on the desktop and am trying to map the
drive....but it cannot find the laptop. I am using the format \\ipaddress\J
where IP address is the IP Address and J is the shared drive.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Danny

 

[Mitch]

If you have a firewall make sure it is turned off when
you try to access your other computer, and Make sure you
have NetBios Browsing enabled on both computers.

To make sure NetBios is enabled:

Open Network Connections.
Right-click the network connection you want to configure,
and then click Properties.
On the General tab (for a local area connection) or the
Networking tab (all other connections), click Internet
Protocol (TCP/IP), and then click Properties.
Click Advanced, click the WINS tab. To enable the use of
NetBIOS over TCP/IP, click Enable NetBIOS over TCP/IP.

Hope i helped,
~Mitch

 

[Chuck]

Dear all,

I am confused and befuddled! I have a desktop connected to a laptop via a
cross cable. The TCP/IP have been manually configured (automatic did not
work, no idea why) and both pc's reach each other in both directions when I
ping.

I have shared the cd drive on the desktop and am trying to map the
drive....but it cannot find the laptop. I am using the format \\ipaddress\J
where IP address is the IP Address and J is the shared drive.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Danny

Danny,

When you share the CD drive, what share name are you giving it? That's the
share name you should use in "\\DesktopIPAddress\CDDrive".

Please provide ipconfig information for each computer.
Start - Run - "cmd". Type "ipconfig /all >c:\ipconfig.txt" into the command
window - Open c:\ipconfig.txt in Notepad, copy and paste into your next post.

From each computer, verify connectivity:
1) Ping the other by name.
2) Ping the other by ip address.
3) Ping itself by name.
4) Ping itself by ip address.
5) Ping 127.0.0.1.
Report success / failure of each of 10 pings.

From each computer, verify shares visibility (use actual name / address of each
computer as appropriate):
Start - Run then:
1) \\ThisComputerByName
2) \\ThisComputerByIPAddress
3) \\OtherComputerByName
4) \\OtherComputerByIPAddress
Report visibility of shares / error displayed in each test (8 tests total).

And Danny, please don't contribute to the spread of email address mining
viruses. Learn to munge your email address properly, to keep yourself a bit
safer when posting to open forums. Protect yourself and the rest of the
internet - never post your address unmunged.
http://www.mailmsg.com/SPAM_munging.htm

Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.

 

[Aardvark]

Thanks for all your help. Re munging thanks for the warning, I have just
changed my email. (realised too that it is an account I never use really
thank goodness).

Danny