Success! I've been googling and going through every Windows forum on the planet -- and I finally found a solution. Thus guy said he had the same problem and some UberGeek he works with came over to his house and fixed it. It's weird but---
Using Regedit.exe ...
I've done that before. I even tried enabling sharing on the whole drive. But I just did it again on another folder on each machine. Where do I look for it on the laptop? I can see the shared folder that's on the laptop in "my network places" on the desktop -- but there's nothing there on the laptop.
OK. I've been going to "view workgroup computers" -- when I click on that, I get 2 icons, one for the desktop, one for the laptop. That's all I see. And of course, when I click on it I get the dreaded eror message. Aargh! Is it too early for a martini?
I can't access shared documents. If I go to "my network places" and click on the desktop icon, that's when I get the error. So I can't get farther than that.
ping results, I think this is god.
Pinging 192.168.0.100 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.0.100: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.0.100: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.0.100: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.0.100: bytes=32 time=1ms...
I can only share a filder on the laptop from the desktop -- if that's what you mean. I've googled how to ping, and have tried -- but can't figure out how to do it
I’m trying to network my laptop and desktop through a wireless router.
Both machines have XP sp2
Both machines share the same username and password
Both machines are in the same workgroup.
The desktop is the primary machine.
I’m able to see both computers, on both machines when I click...
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