Wireless Linksys Router & Microsoft Newworking

[Guest]

I have a Wireless Router with one computer wired to in and the other is
wireless. Both can access the internet, but I can't seem to get them set up
in a home network environment to share files or a printer. PC-1 will be seen
on the workgroup when I'm on it, but it can't see PC-2. Same is true when
I'm on PC-2. What am I doing wrong?

 

[Carey Holzman]

What operating system are the PCs running? Any firewalls installed? If so,
please uninstall them.

Carey

 

[Guest]

I have xp on both. I'll disable the firewalls ...Geo

 

[Guest]

I'm running XP ... I disabled the firewalls ... I can see PC-1 and PC-2 but
can't access files. On PC-2, I can't see PC-1 .. this is thru a wireless
connection.

Geo

 

[Carey Holzman]

XP Home or Pro?

I have xp on both. I'll disable the firewalls ...Geo

 

[Guest]

XP Home on both.

XP Home or Pro?

 

[Carey Holzman]

Please follow the steps at http://www.careyholzman.com/xp/home/xphome-1.htm

I'm not done writing these pages, but go through the manual setup on each PC
following the steps until you get a 'page not found' error, then apply those
changes on each PC by rebooting them and let me know if there is any
difference.

Thanks!
Carey

 

[Guest]

Thanks Carey .. but that didn't help. Everything is still functioning the
same as explained before. Geo

 

[Carey Holzman]

Please send me the IPCONFIG info from each PC

..
Click Start, click Run, type: cmd (and hit enter)



Type: ipconfig /all >c:\ipconfig.txt (and hit enter)



Use Notepad to open c:\ipconfig.txt and copy and paste entire contents into
your next post.



Thanks,
Carey

 

[Guest]

Hi Geo,

Have you enabled File & Printer sharing on each PC (they won't be visible to
the network until you do) ? Are both PC's in the same workgroup ? Have you
tried sharing the files and printers using NetBEUI instead of TCP/IP (perfect
for a small home network as there is no user configuration required - you
install it and it just works) ? There is no need to uninstall firewall
software. As you are behind a Linksys router/firewall, you will be protected
from most internet threats but leaving the Windows XP firewall on will do no
harm and you will find that XP configures it to allow file & printer sharing
on the local network anyway. Hope this helps.

Rergards Colin.