File and printer sharing in WinXP pro Network in seriou disarray. Please help.

[nanyangview]

I finally got my 3Com Officeconnect Wireless G router. That thing rocks!! DAMN STABLE and fast..wayy faster than the Dlink crap and no more hanging.


However..now neither of my client computers (one desktop, one laptop) can access the network shared drives or printers. I checked in the Network config, File and Printer sharing are enabled. What is going on here? Please help.


I am using Windows XP pro on all 3 machines and all are in the same workgroup. I tried browsing Computers in workgroup..but got an error saying that workgroup not accessible..

All 3 computer can get on the net no problems

 

[Mrpilot007]

Did you check to see if they are all using the internet filter? I usually turn that off. Next check the file and printer sharing. Or did you even share any of your drives/folders?

 

[gunrunnerjohn]

If you don't actually have resources marked as shared, you still will have this problem. OTOH, if you have have resources shared, I'd try installing the NETBEUI protocol on all of the systems, this frequently fixes workgroup browsing issues.

 

[azev]

Can you give more details to your problems? Detail such as which computer is the print server (the computer that has a print device connected), which computer is sharing folder ?

1st thing you can do is try to ping each computer to make sure you have a connection. Then make sure all computer are in the same workgroup, and disable the build in firewall on each computer.