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Home Wireless Networking Problem

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  • 06-07-2007 3:44pm
    #1
    Excelsior
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,203 ✭✭✭


    I have two XP computers wirelessly connected through my router. I have an external USB hard drive connected to the desktop and I made it available for sharing. Then I set up a workgroup and added both computers to it.

    Now when I turn on my laptop and go and look around my workgroup in My Network Places I see the desktop but I can't explore it and I can't access the shared hard drive.

    I have tried to access it from Start->Run as well by typing \\"destop ip"\"hard drive name" but that failed to.

    I have a strange feeling I am idiotically missing something simple. Any ideas?


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    #2
    jabberwock
    Registered Users Posts: 928 ✭✭✭jabberwock


    have you tried turning off all your firewalls?


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    #3
    Webmonkey
    Registered Users Posts: 9,579 ✭✭✭Webmonkey


    Have you shared the actual drives instead of just enabling sharing?

    Try going to:

    \\computeriporname\$c

    Where C is a drive letter, try entering the one of your external drive.


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