Recent content by MonicaX

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 ...

Well I hate to say this, but I've tried that too. But you never know -- so I did it agian. Still no worky.

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

Laptop C:\Documents and Settings\Stephen Frasier>ipconfig/all Windows IP Configuration Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : LAPTOP Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . : Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Broadcast IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . ...

How do you post info from the DOS prompt? It's a ton of info.

I screwed up -- sorry guys. I know your not supposed to post 2 in a row. I have XP Home and I've tried turning of the firewall

Ok I tried to map to the desktop (where Desktop1 is the name of the other computer) \\Desktop1\My Documents Says "network path could not be found"

I'll try 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...