Networking 2 Sagers Wi-Fi

Do you have a wireless router and do they both have wireless turned on and can you acess the internet on both at this moment?

do you have msn messanger, I will help over that, it would be quicker, if you don't, I guess I can help you over the forum, that would just be quicker

Ok, here is what I do with my sager and my friend's laptop. go to my computer and there should be a folder titled "shared documents, right click on this folder and click properties. under properties go into the sharing tab and check the boxes that say share this folder over the network, and the one that says allow other users to change my files. after you have done that, go into your windows XP start menu- assuming it is in windows xp mode, and right click on my computer and select properties. under properties you should have a tab that says computer name. you can use the one that it has listed, put personally I would change it to something easier to remember, for example, I changed mine to sagermaniac. Once you have the computer name, you may want to repeat the same steps to get the name for the other computer so that you can access both of them from the other. once you have the computer name, go into internet explorer, or my document, or someting else with the address bar, and type backslash backslash "whatever the name of the other computer is, for example, when I am trying to access my sager from my friend's Toshiba, I would type \\sagermaniac, and since we have set the shareddocuments folder to be accesable over the network, it should bring up the shared folder that is on the hard drive of the other computer, and you can do this both ways on both computers

I think this may be running parallel to Chris, but can you share a folder on each and see it on the opposite?

even better, try pinging one laptop from the other, just to make sure that both can 'see' each other.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...02april08.mspx


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firewalls??

i asume u got firewalls on your machines, depending on their settings they might block the machines to be seen. try turn them of and see what happen.

Here's the simply way, always works for me.

-Turn off ALL firewalls, even the built in microcrapsoft one.
-Run the Network Wizard, when it asks what type of network, select the one on the next page that says all computers are connected through a hub.
-let the wizard finish, then restart your computer(s). You have to run the wizard on both machines.
-After they restart, turn off the firewalls again and wait about 2 minutes, go to Network Places and voila! You should see the other computer's Share Folder.


It seems you've already tried this but just wanted to make sure you clicked the network setting I specified in step 2

I've never been able to get the workgroups to work in XP using a router acting as NA translator. I have to set fixed IP addresses and type them in the explorer address bar to browse shared directories.

File and Print sharing also will not work until you run the wizard for each interface either, as was just mentioned. Still simpler than setting up NFS in 'nix, I guess.