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Can't get two PCs to talk thru wireless network-WORKS!!

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kjacobs

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I have two PCs, one recently upgraded to Win2000 and it has a Linksys wireless router hardwired to it. The second PC is win98. They worked fine after the upograde but now I cannot get them to share files or printers. The second PC has a wireless PCI card and it seems to recognize the network. AND the second PC DOES have access to the internet (DSL modem).

It HAS to be something to do with file sharing? Both PCs show sharing of folders and printers. Just cannot get them to recognzie each other.

I read the FAQs but it did not help.

Ken
 
Anybody?

I set up a new user in the win2000 machine called "Upstairs". That is what I login with on the win98 PC (upstairs). Both PCs have the folders shared. But they do not "see" each other. I have set the workgroup to be "workgroup" but that does not help.

I am not sure now if the file sharing ever worked after the upgrade.

Any ideas? As I said before, I can share the internet but NOT files or printers.

Ken
 
Important For the purpose of the initial setting, disable all software Firewall (including WinXP native ICF); disable any active Virus scan or any other utility that might intercept Network Traffic.

The following Collection of Links might help:

Win98:

Link: AanadTech - FAQ. Networking and sharing between computers.

Win2000:

Link: Networking between Windows 2000 and Windows95/98 .

Link: AnandTech FAQ - Sharing Files/Printers between WinNT/Win2K and Win9x/ME.

More links for SetUp and Sharing in this page.

Link: EZLAN.NET - Basic Networking.
 
Well a good way to troubleshoot this is from each pc try and open a share from the start/run line using the other pc's ip address. Like this:

//192.168.1.10/share

If this works, this tells you that you have a netbios issue with tcpip and an easy way around this for your type of network is to enable netbui or edit your lmhosts file. I've seen tcpip/netbios hosed where just enabling netbui will get you around the problem. For a small home network this will be fine.

If you can't go to the ip share you have other issues, try and ping the other pc's and as the other gentleman said remove any firewalls, etc.
 
I could not get the "share" syntax to connect from the Run box. BUT I WAS able to ping the other computer. Could THAT have forced it to find it? I also turned off the firewall and it worked! Reactivating the firewall killed the connection. So I went in and configured the firewall to accept the PC's IP address.

Thanks SO much guys!
 
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