Bah! Why can't my WinXP laptop see my Win2K desktop's shared drives?!?!

[KingNothing]

When my laptop was Win2K, they worked fine together. Now neither computer can see the other's drives. I installed the NetBIOS protocol and that didn't help, I know my crossover cable is good because there's green and orange lights on the NICs. Help!!! :|

 

[obenton]

Install Netbeui protocol and assign same workgroup name to both computers.

 

[KingNothing]

That's what I did under Win2K, but WinXP doesn't have a NetBEUI protocol. I did have them in the WORKGROUP workgroup, and I even tried assigning my desktop the IP address 10.0.0.1 and my laptop 10.0.0.2 with both having the 255.255.0.0 subnet and it still didn't work.

 

[pdo]

go to settings>control panel>Users and Password>Advanced Tab> click on Advanced. under Users just uncheck Account is disabled Hope that might work for you...

 

[obenton]

From a command prompt, see if each computer can ping itself and the other computer. If ping won't work, it's a hardware problem. If ping works, then it's a protocol and configuration issue. Make sure Client for MS Networks and File and Printer Sharing are enabled in tcp/ip settings.

 

[KingNothing]

ping works, file & print sharing and client for M$ networks are installed. Still no love, though.

 

[Spikey289]

Try doing a search for computer and see if you can find the other machine at least that way you can still get to it. I had a similar problem with Me and 98 I had to use find computer and not network neigborhood to share files.

 

[KingNothing]

I can't find the computer by searching for it. Oh, and the guest account is enabled on both machines.

 

[bonkers325]

Originally posted by: KingNothing
When my laptop was Win2K, they worked fine together. Now neither computer can see the other's drives. I installed the NetBIOS protocol and that didn't help, I know my crossover cable is good because there's green and orange lights on the NICs. Help!!! :|

your problem is you need to enable simple file sharing

goto my computer
tools
view
use simple file sharing
hit apply
then goto a drive and hit sharing and security
goto sharing
click the link
then check the white box to share it

obtw make sure computer name is different and workgroup is the same

worked for me when my xp box didnt see 2k or 2k didnt see xp
before that it was 2k and 2k fine 😉

if this doesnt work something is wrong with your boxes

 

[KingNothing]

Dang...just when I had a glimmer of hope, I find out that simple file sharing is already enabled. 🙁

Computer names are brentlaptop and brentdesktop. Workgroup is WORKGROUP.

My Win2K desktop sees my laptop as a computer on the network, but can't access any resources. My WinXP laptop doesn't even get that far.

Nothing has changed (that I know of) on my Win2K desktop since I upgraded to XP on my laptop. XP was a fresh install as of last night. Reinstalling Win2K on my desktop is not an option.

One interesting thing I noticed...but I doubt this means anything. On my desktop the NIC (integrated into the mobo) displays a green and orange light constantly. On my laptop the orange light is only blinking when I'm trying to access shares on my desktop, otherwise it's off. I'm sure this is just a design feature of the NICs though.