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File Sharing Issue

Desktop PC is conencted via Ethernet to netgear Wireless Router which in turn is connected to Motorola SurfBoard SB5200 for Internet access. 2 Laptops connect to Netgear router with wireless cards.

Desktop PC is running McAfee Firewall, has XP's built-in firewall disabled.

We ran File Sharing wizard on desktop PC, & on both laptops and shared the folders we wanted visible. The Desktop PC sees the laptops but the Laptops do not see the resources on the desktop PC.

Workgroup has the same name on all 3 machines and each machine is pingable from one another but desktop does not show up in Network Neighborhood on either Laptop.

Tried disabling all software firewalls and no joy, any ideas?

Reply to
DW
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Forgot to mention, all 3 machines are running Windows XP Professional SP2.

Reply to
DW

You should do this on a wire connection and see if the machines have no problems before you go to wireless, one doesn't use some kind of File Sharing Wizard. If you say this is XP Pro, then you should disabled Simple File Sharing and then you can go to the folder you want to share with Explorer and select Sharing and do it manually. Hopefully, you are using NTFS and are able to use Authenticated User Group on shares and are taking other security measures at the machine level for the machines on your wireless network, because your network using WEP can be attacked easily and machines accessed since you're wanting to do resource sharing between machines, even with a PFW enabled.

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Duane :)

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Duane Arnold

Make sure the workgroup is the same on all systems ?

Reply to
corb

A common workgroup name is NOT a barrier to file sharing, it just organises people into the same group view.

Try accessing the machine via IP address i.e. start run \\\\ip address

David.

Reply to
David Taylor

Yep checked that and it IS the same.

Reply to
DW

Cannot access it via \\\\"IP Address" BUT all 3 machiens ARE pingable from one another

Reply to
DW

Then it sounds more like a firewall issue.

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David Taylor

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