Sharing mshome workgroup

[Yaser Arafat]

Did you turn off firewall on your laptop and other compts?
Did you create a share on the drive?
you should repeat the same steps of creating mshome on
your laptop and desktops as well.

Jihad be your God

Yaser Arafat
>-----Original Message-----
>Hi,
>
>I'm trying to connect my laptop (with XP Professional) to
my home computer
>(also with XP Professional). I have wireless networking
through dell (2300
>router). The wireless is working well in that I get
access to the internet
>on both computers through the router.
>
>However, I cannot seem to be able to do file sharing on
both computers.
>I've run the "Set up a home or small office network" on
both computers, etc.
>But when I try to see workgroup computers using the "View
workgroup
>computers," from the desktop computer, it sees the
laptop, but doesn't give
>me permission to go to it (I get a "\laptop is not
accessible. You might not
>have permission to use this network resource. Contact the
administator for
>this server..."). From the laptop, I don't even see the
desktop computer in
>the "View workgroup computers" screen.
>
>Where should I look?
>
>Help!!
>
>Pascal
>
>
>.
>

[Pascal]

Yes. I did all that (I removed McAfee). Unless the router has a built-in
firewall? Can I turn that off somehow?

Thanks.

"Yaser Arafat" > wrote in message
...
> Did you turn off firewall on your laptop and other compts?
> Did you create a share on the drive?
> you should repeat the same steps of creating mshome on
> your laptop and desktops as well.
>
> Jihad be your God
>
> Yaser Arafat
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Hi,
> >
> >I'm trying to connect my laptop (with XP Professional) to
> my home computer
> >(also with XP Professional). I have wireless networking
> through dell (2300
> >router). The wireless is working well in that I get
> access to the internet
> >on both computers through the router.
> >
> >However, I cannot seem to be able to do file sharing on
> both computers.
> >I've run the "Set up a home or small office network" on
> both computers, etc.
> >But when I try to see workgroup computers using the "View
> workgroup
> >computers," from the desktop computer, it sees the
> laptop, but doesn't give
> >me permission to go to it (I get a "\laptop is not
> accessible. You might not
> >have permission to use this network resource. Contact the
> administator for
> >this server..."). From the laptop, I don't even see the
> desktop computer in
> >the "View workgroup computers" screen.
> >
> >Where should I look?
> >
> >Help!!
> >
> >Pascal
> >
> >
> >.
> >