Network Help Needed - SE London (SE9)
 

Guys,

Anyone want to earn a beer or 2 ??

I have brought my desktop home from the office and got it connected to my wireless modem along with my laptop but can't get them talking to eachother.

I want the ability to browse each machine so that I can swop data from one to the other at will.

Anyone about ????

Dibbs,

Someone will be along shortly to give you a better answer.

BUT ;) check you have shared the folders on each machine that you want to browse and look out for that firewall software that you'll have installed.

Good luck mate!

When you call later you can speak to the boss and he should be able to help :)

Lil

Assuming you have a wireless network and both computers can connect to it and assuming you are running Windows of some description ...

1. you need to find out the ip address of each machine ... to do this "start" ... "run" ... "cmd" ... then in the dos window box type IPCONFIG and press return. Do this on both machines. Record the IP Address of both - probably 192.168.1.2 or similar 4 digit number

2. Go into both machines and click on "My Computer". On the drives you want to view on each machine, right click on the drive icon (C Drive for example) and click "Sharing and Security". Change these properties to share the drive and contents with others.

3. On each computer, click My Computer ... Tools .. .Map a network drive. Choose a letter and use the following format for a path. \\192.168.2.1\C$ or similar. Obviously use the IP address of the other computer you want to access.

That's it. Whenever you want to access files on the other computer, click my computer and click the new drive letter you just mapped to.

**** NOTE **** If you have wireless network with no security features, this procedure could open up your data to others that could potentially access your wireless network - like your neighbour - if they knew how.

Start here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...g/default.mspx

Dibble, give us a all tonight/tomorrow if you're stuck, there's a few simple things to check which I am sure you can do over the blower