[dan3411]

can someone tell me the steps to connecting two computers, i have a working wireless lan which we cna both connect to the internet, but when i assign both computers witht he workgroup "HOME" i can only see one computer in my network places.. any help would be much appriciated

cheers dan

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Hi. Do you have a software based firewall installed on both computers?

[Facedown98]

Hi. Do you have a software based firewall installed on both computers?

[dan3411]

i have mcafee on one and lab tech zone alarn on the other

is this the easiest way of creating a filesharing network, are there alternatives??
cheers dan

Edited by dan3411, 24 September 2006 - 11:17 AM.

[Facedown98]

What to do is add both computers' IP addresses to the "Safe/Trusted Zone". You should then be able to access shared folders and such from both computers.

[Neil Jones]

McAfee usually sorts the local IP addresses out for you, ZoneAlarm insists on blocking them out of the box because it thinks that's what you want to do.

Usually you can add a range of IPs to declare safe - they're usually 192.168.0.x or 10.0.0.x ranges.