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Help setting up 3 computers......

G

GEShields

Senior member
I went to the this site and then to this site and am still perplexed.

I'll explain what I am trying to do.

I purchased a netgear rp114 last night to share my DSL connection. 1st computer is a Windows XP Pro computer(main one). 2nd computer is my wife's. Windows ME right now. 3rd computer [we'll get to this later] is her ancient laptop running Windows 95.

On all the computers we can access the internet so that is not the problem. Router works great for that. I want my wife and I to be able to share files and share the laser printer hooked up to my computer. I tried the Window XP networking wizard and then created the disk to take to my wife's computer and installed it there also. I did nothing with the network adapters as far as assigning IP addresses. They are all set to obtain automatically. I set the workgroup name to MSHOME as recommended..

My computer WIN XP PRO has Greg and Erin as administrators. My wife's comp WIN ME is set to windows logon.

All I did so far with router setup is run the netgear wizard but I kept everything default.

Now, the laptop that I spoke of earlier. We just need some of the HDD transferred to her main computer, my documents, etc. How do I do a direct connection to her main comuter and transfer the files. Then we will wipe her laptop clean and sell it. The laptop does have a PCMCIA ethernet card and we have a crossover cable.

Sorry for the long post but I am starting to feel real dumb trying to figure all this out and then getting it wrong.

Greg
 
If you just want a direct connection, just hook up the crossover from your wife's laptop to her computer. Just transfer the files that way, then wipe the hard drive. Just make sure that you have TCP/IP enabled on both, and you should be able to see the laptop from her desktop. Hope this helps.
 
ok i have no idea what you want to do beside share intenet connection and transfer the files so if you have a router and swtich o r hub built in connect all the computers with cat cable to it and it will assegn each computer a ip and ress tehn go asnd set all the wor grups to wokrgroup or what ever you like then then goto file print sharing adn enbale that and then goto the drives you want to share and share it and that should do it.then you will be able to the see the other computer or if you can try




\\computer name and you should see what you share and oh yea enable guest with no password so....oh and in the shareiing give full acess and that should do it!
 
I got my wife's computer and laptop to "see" each other but I had to assign each computer an IP address. nd now those 2 will share info. Now I got to try to do all this with the 3 computers hooked to the router..

Greg
 
Well the thing is with a router all you need is a hub really (I recommend a switch). But, yes you do have to assign IP's unlesss you got DHCP running which I take it you don't cuz you can't do 3 comps but all you really should have to do is pulg to DSL router into a hub/switch and it should work!

 
I have them all configured properly and my Computer keeps saying unable to browse network while the other two computer see each other. I can transfer files, etc on them. Gonna try switching out NIC card. It's a 3com 900B 10 baset only. Maybe that's the problem...

Greg
 
Ok...here's the deal. Switched network cards in main computer to a netgear fa311 and still same problem....

I can "see" the other 2 comps but when I try to click them to access i get this:
"
\\desktop is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions.

The network path was not found.
"

I used all different computer names and assigned each to the same workgroup: mshome.

I also tried pinging each computer from main computer and the ping works with access <1ms. I then tried the other two computers pinging all computers and they all ping OK..

Forgot to add that the laptop(win95) and my wife's computer(win ME) see each other and can open each others documents so the main computer(win XP Pro) is the only problem. I can see them but they can't see me.


Need help bad....

Greg
 
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