UPDATE, SUCCESS! Transferring files across a network????

[mmbond]

Still Stuck here. Help?

 

[dude8604]

If you have AIM, I can walk you through it. It's kinda hard to explain it here. IM me, it's dude8605.

 

[mrEvil]

The OS, as long as it is a Microshaft OS and not part of a domain, does not matter. Same userid and password and then attach to the administrative share.

I'm assuming you can:

(1) Ping the local TCP/IP address of the other machine
(2) Ping the name of the other machine


Go to a Command Prompt and type:

ping NAME


where NAME is the computer name of the other PC that you are attempting to attach to.

 

[mmbond]

Dude: I don't even know what the "A" is in AIM (instant messaging). Sorry, but if you want to let me in on what it stands for I'll download it. thanks for checking in.

Mr. evil, I cant even get the network to recognize the two pc's - i.e. I can't see either one when viewing "view workgroup computers". I'm interested in your suggestion but I need to know if this matters.

 

[dude8604]

AIM is AOL Instant Messenger. Or, if you don't have that and have ICQ, I have that also. Let me know.

 

[mmbond]

Dude: I just downloaded ICQ. my handle is mmbond. Are you under the same name? I think I just found you under Dude 8064. I'm ready to chat when you are. Thanks again for your help.

 

[mrEvil]

Again, do you know how to ping? Do you know how to get the ip address of the machines?

IP address - go to a command line and type IPCONFIG and it will tell you the IP address of the machine you are on. Go to the other machine, and from a command line prompt, type

ping <ip address>


If you get a response, then they can communicate. If it times out, then they cannot. That is step #1.

 

[mmbond]

mr. evil, I started pinging today with help from a Linksys tech. No success on that so far. I'm wondering if Zonealarm may be a culprit, so I just uninstalled it and I'm going to try from scratch.

 

[dude8604]

what happened after you did the network configuration wizzard again? If it didn't work, I might be able to help you more through ICQ and VNC. LMK.

 

[DaiShan]

you don't need a firewall as you have a hardware firewall built into you router, first thing you need to do is establish if you still have a connection to the router or not, type in DOS ping 192.168.1.1 (I believe this is the ip address of your router) if you don't get any response i.e. all packets were lost, then you have to do some tweaking, like manually entering the information back into network properties, let us know if you can ping the router, then we will go from there

 

[mmbond]

Hey Guys. I can ping the router no prob. I occasionally lose my internet connection and have to futz with it to get it back up (either disconnect the router or change the values). I just got off with Linksys tech support and he helped me to restore the internet connection this time. He asked me to reboot both pc's and we hung up. The internet would not work again until I changed the values again. This is incredibly frustrating, but I appreciate all of the help.

 

[mmbond]

You guys are not going to believe this, but I had serious trouble with this even with tech supports help. certain things would work and others absolutely would not. anyway, i replaced one of the network cables tonight when i got home and IT WORKS! the whole thing! internet and file sharing. I'd hate to think that I went through 4+ days of hell because of a network cable, but as i said, the damn thing is working. here's hoping I'm not dreaming all of this. Many thanks to all who assisted expecially Dude 8064, DaiShan and Mr. Evil. Thanks a bunch guys!

 

[ttn1]

Welcome to the 4+ days of hell club. I know I've been there.

"It couldn't be the network cable. Has to be something else."

Other famous words:
"No way it's the power supply."
"I know the drivers are installed correctly."
"I can't tell if it's plugged in. The power is out, so I don't have any lights."

Been there, done that. Glad you got it working.

 

[Woodie]

<< "I can't tell if it's plugged in. The power is out, so I don't have any lights." >>



ROTFLMAO !!!

I can just picture it....(yes, I've worked the support desk)

 

[dude8604]

Yeah I knew it was a problem with the cables. All of the settings were fine, so that definetely would make sense.

 

[mmbond]

Thanks again guys. This site rocks!