I had a simple home network running behind a Linksys WRT54G router. My Windows XP Pro desktop is wired to the router and my Windows XP Home laptop is connected wirelessly. Because of the small size of the Laptop hard drive, I had a few shares established on my Desktop to stream video and mp3 files to my laptop when needed.
My desktop system was installed almost a year ago and recently I could tell there were some registry oddities going on. When I'd launch a movie, a MS PhotoGallery dialog would appear and other strange things. This all happened after I tried a reg cleaner so it's pretty much my fault.
I reinstalled the Desktop and Laptop OS.
Now, doing the exact same things to establish the network before isn't working now. The laptop can ping the desktop and vise versa. When I browse for workgroups, I can see them on there. For whatever reason though, the Desktop can access the My Shared Docs folder on the laptop but I can't access any of the shares on the Desktop from the Laptop. To be more precise, I'm not getting a dialog box to type in the username or password I've setup. All I get is a long "access denied" dialog.
I'm not running any firewalls and oddly enough, my Xbox which I use as a media client can access the shares on my Desktop normally. For whatever reason though, the laptop can't.
That is I should say, the way I had it setup before with a username/pass account on the Desktop. If I turn on Simple File Sharing on the Desktop and click the "Allow Sharing of Files", my Laptop can magically access the shares, albeit without any kind of password/username input like before.
Anyone know why this would change all of a sudden? I went and googled the same home networking guide I used to set it up the first time and step-by-step noted that I went through the same procedure. For whatever reason though, it's not working this time, at least not without Simple File Sharing.
Edit:
Security Question.
I could just leave Simple File Sharing on without any kind of password and have it work but would this be safe? Even though I'm behind the WRT54G, it just doesn't seem right to have network shares without a password of some kind.
My desktop system was installed almost a year ago and recently I could tell there were some registry oddities going on. When I'd launch a movie, a MS PhotoGallery dialog would appear and other strange things. This all happened after I tried a reg cleaner so it's pretty much my fault.
I reinstalled the Desktop and Laptop OS.
Now, doing the exact same things to establish the network before isn't working now. The laptop can ping the desktop and vise versa. When I browse for workgroups, I can see them on there. For whatever reason though, the Desktop can access the My Shared Docs folder on the laptop but I can't access any of the shares on the Desktop from the Laptop. To be more precise, I'm not getting a dialog box to type in the username or password I've setup. All I get is a long "access denied" dialog.
I'm not running any firewalls and oddly enough, my Xbox which I use as a media client can access the shares on my Desktop normally. For whatever reason though, the laptop can't.
That is I should say, the way I had it setup before with a username/pass account on the Desktop. If I turn on Simple File Sharing on the Desktop and click the "Allow Sharing of Files", my Laptop can magically access the shares, albeit without any kind of password/username input like before.
Anyone know why this would change all of a sudden? I went and googled the same home networking guide I used to set it up the first time and step-by-step noted that I went through the same procedure. For whatever reason though, it's not working this time, at least not without Simple File Sharing.
Edit:
Security Question.
I could just leave Simple File Sharing on without any kind of password and have it work but would this be safe? Even though I'm behind the WRT54G, it just doesn't seem right to have network shares without a password of some kind.
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