Home Networking Problem 1

[RebelFox]

I recently bought a new PC with XP Professional on it.
I have put a network card in it and my old windows 98 PC
and I nted to link the two together to share a cable broadband internet connection and to move files between the two.

I have connected both machines to a Gateway router that connects to my cable internet connection. Both Machines can access the internet nicely.

My problem is that I can't set up the shared folders on each machine.

When I click on 'My Network Places' in XP and then click on 'Microsoft Windows Network' follwed by clicking on my network name of 'MSHOME', I get both machines listed as 'Computer1' and 'Computer2'. I can expand my XP 'Computer1' to see the shared folder but when I click on 'Computer2' I get the error message:-

'\Computer2 is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrater of this server to find out if you have access permissions. The network path was not found.'

My old 'Computer2' can't even get that far. It can't see 'Computer1' at all in the 'Network Neighbourhood'.

Both machines have an allocated folder where I have right clicked the properties of the folder from explorer and enabled sharing.

Anybody any ideas?

 

[MasterofNone]

Do you have a firewall running (or xp firewall) on computer1. This could explain its ability to see computer2 but not vice versa. In network connections do you have file and printer sharing services installed.

open explorer, choose shared directories properties. Under sharing you will see share on network (this might be disables, if so enable (if you are aware of the security issues)).

Choose share and give the drive/folder a share name.

hope this at least gets you going.

 

[RebelFox]

You were in the right area.
I had switched off the firewalls on my new PC but my old one had Norton anti-virun running on it. I'd forgotten all about it and of course it has a firewall.

Somehow you triggered the meory that I had Norton on my old 'puter.

Many thanks. I've spent a weekend and two evenings trying to sort that one out.