[horlor44]

I have 1 Laptop and 1 PC, the PC is hard wired to a wireless thomson router,the Laptop via wireles Netgear Card.
I have setup a workgroup on the PC and named it MSHOME01 and shared all the drives I want to , eg. "C" and "F" on the PC ( F is my external drive). But when my laptop searches ,It finds Workgroup MSHOME01 ,but when I clicked it finds the Drives C&F and when I click them a warning box appears,While on the PC the Workgroup MSHOME01 shows all my drives and shared stuff. All Firwalls are down Inc Windows . I can get online from both and can access the laptop files from the PC but not visa versa.see attached Warning Box.Any Help..Thanks

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Edited by horlor44, 29 March 2006 - 03:41 AM.

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Hi horlor44,

In my experience, firewalls don't turn off when you shut them down; they're usually still running in the background at some level. So, to ensure that this isn't a firewall issue, I'd suggest restarting both the laptop and the PC into Safe Mode with Networking, and then attempt to share files; are you able to?

How to restart into Safe Mode with Networking
Please restart your computer and as soon as it starts booting up again continuously tap F8. A menu should come up where you will be given the option to enter Safe Mode, Safe Mode with Command Prompt and Safe Mode with Networking (along with a few others). Please tap the down key until you reach Safe Mode with Networking, and then press the Enter key. Your computer should now boot into Safe Mode with Networking.

Also, on the PC, goto Start --> Run --> type CMD and press OK --> then type: IPCONFIG /ALL --> look for the IP Address --> Write it down. Now, on the laptop, goto Start --> Run --> Type: \\[IP_ADDRESS]\C\[SharedFile] -- where [IP_ADDRESS] is the the address that you wrote down, and [SharedFile] is a file that you have shared on the PC. For example:
\\192.168.0.3\C\Music\musicFile.wmv

Do you still get the error message when you do this?

- Dan

[Dan]

Hi horlor44,

In my experience, firewalls don't turn off when you shut them down; they're usually still running in the background at some level. So, to ensure that this isn't a firewall issue, I'd suggest restarting both the laptop and the PC into Safe Mode with Networking, and then attempt to share files; are you able to?

How to restart into Safe Mode with Networking
Please restart your computer and as soon as it starts booting up again continuously tap F8. A menu should come up where you will be given the option to enter Safe Mode, Safe Mode with Command Prompt and Safe Mode with Networking (along with a few others). Please tap the down key until you reach Safe Mode with Networking, and then press the Enter key. Your computer should now boot into Safe Mode with Networking.

Also, on the PC, goto Start --> Run --> type CMD and press OK --> then type: IPCONFIG /ALL --> look for the IP Address --> Write it down. Now, on the laptop, goto Start --> Run --> Type: \\[IP_ADDRESS]\C\[SharedFile] -- where [IP_ADDRESS] is the the address that you wrote down, and [SharedFile] is a file that you have shared on the PC. For example:
\\192.168.0.3\C\Music\musicFile.wmv

Do you still get the error message when you do this?

- Dan

[horlor44]

Dan ,Thanks Again...Ive been into the properties of all the connections in Network Places and changed some stuff ,I dont really know what ,but guess what ?! its working now,so I created a restore point on both machines..just in case..I think it was the laptop not aquiring the network..who knows? there are far to many variables for my likeing!! Thanks for all you help