Home networking help.

[sillymofo]

I have three comps. Two desk tops and one laptop, all hooked into an 802.11b router (64bit WEP). The network is infrastructure, and I have joined all computers to a "Workgroup". I have enabled sharing, checked security, assigned permissions, etc. but can not access share data. I can see the damn comps in network neighborhood, but can not access the comp... Any one?

 

[bunker]

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[xcript]

Assuming you're running XP on these systems, make sure the builtin firewall is disabled.

 

[Papagayo]

try going through it by TCPIP..

 

[sillymofo]

Originally posted by: xcript
Assuming you're running XP on these systems, make sure the builtin firewall is disabled.

Will check that... but if I enable sharing and specifically assigned permissions to all comps, wouldn't that bypass the "firewall'?

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: cr4zymofo

Originally posted by: xcript
Assuming you're running XP on these systems, make sure the builtin firewall is disabled.

Will check that... but if I enable sharing and specifically assigned permissions to all comps, wouldn't that bypass the "firewall'?

I believe the XP firewall is stupid. I never saw many configuration options in XP when I had to use it.

Are there any errors involved? Are all three machines XP? Home or Pro?

You might want to try the Networking forum. It is where threads like this belong.

 

[nsafreak]

No it would not bypass the XP firewall and frankly you wouldn't want it to just bypass it. Would you really want any person with access to your network to have access to your shares? I'm not sure how you set it up under XP but you basically would want to set it up to allow the IP addresses from the other comps through.

 

[KarenMarie]

make sure ICF is disabled. Make sure you enable NetBIOS over TCP/IP, and whatever you want to share must go into the shared files folder.

hope this helps!

🙂 KarenMarie

 

[sillymofo]

Originally posted by: KarenMarie
make sure ICF is disabled. Make sure you enable NetBIOS over TCP/IP, and whatever you want to share must go into the shared files folder. hope this helps! 🙂 KarenMarie

Thanks... it's been a while since I messed with winduh networks. Will check all configs again,...

 

[PanzerIV]

cr4zymofo you said you enabled sharing but did you actually right click on the item you want shared and go into the share properties??

 

[sillymofo]

Originally posted by: PanzerIV
cr4zymofo you said you enabled sharing but did you actually right click on the item you want shared and go into the share properties??

Yes.. As I've stated, I've went into the sharing properties and assigned rights/permission to the shared folder. But thanks for all inputs, I will check all configs posted here and will return with results.