jaq1967
January 10th 04, 02:32 AM
I read yesterday something about the spooler. Lost the
site, but do a search for XP and file sharing on Yahoo and
keep looking. I think it is something to do with
increasing a range number for the printer (using regedit)
as some XP's have problems sharing some printers with ICS.
The 1394 is a network card and nothing to do with your
video card as far as I am aware.
Until last night I could not get my computers to see each
other or share files, yet both XP machines were able to
access the net on my DSL connection. Both machines use XP
Pro, network cards and a LinkSYS hub. The solution I came
across was:
1) Firewall on Host switch on and Client Off.
2) Switch the Guest User to On from Off on both machines
in the User Accounts (control Panel).
3) In Explorer (under tools/folder options/view/)
uncheck 'use simple file sharing' - (it's at the bottom).
4) In network connections find your network cards on each
machine and right click properties. click Install and add
extra protocol (the IPX/SPX/NetBIOS protocol).
5) Reboot both PC's and you should be able to see each
other and share files (assuming you have allowed sharing
on each of the items you want to share - drives, printers
etc...).
Hope this works for you like it did for me? Let me know.
Jaq1967
>-----Original Message-----
>I have a desktop I want to connect to my laptop - both
XP. The desktop has a
>dialup connection to the Internet. I bought a Netgear hub
and cables. Ran
>the wizard on the desktop. Spooler subsystem App error.
Ran it again. It set
>up a bridge. Says I have two network cards. One it says
in 1394 Net Adapter
>which I think may be my video card (computer invoice says
I have TV out).
>The other which I have cable connected to is a GVC
REALTEK Ethernet 10/100
>PCI Adapter. I set up the shared Internet connecton on
the desktop. Then ran
>the wizard on my laptop. Laptop can see the Internet
gateway on MYDELL
>(Desktop) but can't see MYDELL on MSHOME. The desktop
can't see anything on
>MSHOME - not even itself. I've runt eh wizard about 50
times in different
>configurations. I disabled then deleted the bridge. I
manually select the
>lan connection so it won't set up the bridge. I always
get the spooler
>error. I've messed with settings. I've tried lots of
things without success.
>After try 25, I discovered pinging. Until yesterday, I
thought I couldn't
>ping anything at all, not 192.168.0.1, not 127.0.0.1, not
anything.
>yesterday I tried pinging www.cobaltequipment.com and got
a response. I
>tried www.ebay.com and got the usual timeouts. I tried
www.microsoft.com and
>it worked too. Everything I've read sounds like if you
can't ping, you have
>a dead card, but since the laptop has seen the other
computer and I can ping
>a few websites, my problem is not the card. Well, I don't
know what to do.
>I've tried to be brief ha!
>
>Some suggestions would be hugely apreciated.
>
>
>.
>
site, but do a search for XP and file sharing on Yahoo and
keep looking. I think it is something to do with
increasing a range number for the printer (using regedit)
as some XP's have problems sharing some printers with ICS.
The 1394 is a network card and nothing to do with your
video card as far as I am aware.
Until last night I could not get my computers to see each
other or share files, yet both XP machines were able to
access the net on my DSL connection. Both machines use XP
Pro, network cards and a LinkSYS hub. The solution I came
across was:
1) Firewall on Host switch on and Client Off.
2) Switch the Guest User to On from Off on both machines
in the User Accounts (control Panel).
3) In Explorer (under tools/folder options/view/)
uncheck 'use simple file sharing' - (it's at the bottom).
4) In network connections find your network cards on each
machine and right click properties. click Install and add
extra protocol (the IPX/SPX/NetBIOS protocol).
5) Reboot both PC's and you should be able to see each
other and share files (assuming you have allowed sharing
on each of the items you want to share - drives, printers
etc...).
Hope this works for you like it did for me? Let me know.
Jaq1967
>-----Original Message-----
>I have a desktop I want to connect to my laptop - both
XP. The desktop has a
>dialup connection to the Internet. I bought a Netgear hub
and cables. Ran
>the wizard on the desktop. Spooler subsystem App error.
Ran it again. It set
>up a bridge. Says I have two network cards. One it says
in 1394 Net Adapter
>which I think may be my video card (computer invoice says
I have TV out).
>The other which I have cable connected to is a GVC
REALTEK Ethernet 10/100
>PCI Adapter. I set up the shared Internet connecton on
the desktop. Then ran
>the wizard on my laptop. Laptop can see the Internet
gateway on MYDELL
>(Desktop) but can't see MYDELL on MSHOME. The desktop
can't see anything on
>MSHOME - not even itself. I've runt eh wizard about 50
times in different
>configurations. I disabled then deleted the bridge. I
manually select the
>lan connection so it won't set up the bridge. I always
get the spooler
>error. I've messed with settings. I've tried lots of
things without success.
>After try 25, I discovered pinging. Until yesterday, I
thought I couldn't
>ping anything at all, not 192.168.0.1, not 127.0.0.1, not
anything.
>yesterday I tried pinging www.cobaltequipment.com and got
a response. I
>tried www.ebay.com and got the usual timeouts. I tried
www.microsoft.com and
>it worked too. Everything I've read sounds like if you
can't ping, you have
>a dead card, but since the laptop has seen the other
computer and I can ping
>a few websites, my problem is not the card. Well, I don't
know what to do.
>I've tried to be brief ha!
>
>Some suggestions would be hugely apreciated.
>
>
>.
>