sharing printers and files

[Kevin Hauschulz]

hi--
i am having trouble accessing my files and printers
across a wireless network. I have used the
troubleshooting guides in both Windows and the Knowledge
base but to no avail. When I try to connect to the
computer; it gives me the error message:"\\<computer
name>\\ is not accessible. You might not have permission
to use this network resource." However, I can ping the
computer fine, and it detects that it is there. As far
as I know, I don't have any passwords or anything set up
on this machine. Any ideas as to what is wrong?
any help is appreciated
-(please e-mail)

 

[Chuck]

hi--
i am having trouble accessing my files and printers
across a wireless network. I have used the
troubleshooting guides in both Windows and the Knowledge
base but to no avail. When I try to connect to the
computer; it gives me the error message:"\\<computer
name>\\ is not accessible. You might not have permission
to use this network resource." However, I can ping the
computer fine, and it detects that it is there. As far
as I know, I don't have any passwords or anything set up
on this machine. Any ideas as to what is wrong?
any help is appreciated
-(please e-mail)

Kevin,

Asked here, answered here. For everybody's benefit.

Are you running both Client for Microsoft Networks, and File and Printer Sharing
for Microsoft Networks (Local Area Connection - Properties), on both computers?
Do you have shares setup on both?

Are you running NetBIOS Over TCP/IP (Local Area Connection - Properties - TCP/IP
- Properties - Advanced - WINS) on both computers?

Make sure the browser service is running on each computer. Control Panel -
Administrative Tools - Services. Verify that the Computer Browser service is
started.

Do you have any software firewalls (ICF or third party) on any computer? Ever?

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.
Identify each computer with OS name and version.

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.
6) Ping the router.
Report success / failure of each of 12 pings.

From each computer, verify shares visibility (substitute name / address of
computer as appropriate):
Start - Run then:
1) \\ThisComputerName
2) \\ThisComputerIPAddress
3) \\OtherComputerName
4) \\OtherComputerIPAddress
Report visibility of shares / error displayed in each case.

And Kevin, 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.