Wireless home networking (file transfer)

26 Nov 2006 2:52 PM

gooderz

Hi everyone. I hope you can help me because I am at a loss. I have a Dell
Dimension running XP home and an Acer laptop running XP Media Centre. I have
recently bought a Linksys wireless router and have had no trouble setting it
up so the desktop and laptop can both use the internet at the same time.
Getting to the point, I know you can transfer files between the machines but
I am unable to do this. I have run the "Set up or change your home or small
office network" wizard and the "Set up a wireless network for a home or small
office". The desktop has found the laptop but is unable to access it. The
laptop doesn't seem to know that the desktop is even there. Any help would be
greatly appreciated.

26 Nov 2006 5:50 PM

David Hettel

Are you running a firewall, multiple firewalls on the Laptop? Most likely
it's a firewall problem or a permission problem.

See if these pages might not help you a little,

My New Wireless does not work - http://www.ezlan.net/wireless.html
Wireless, Basic Configuration - http://www.ezlan.net/Wireless_Config.html
Wireless Security - http://www.ezlan.net/Wireless_Security.html

Also there is an excellent network troubleshooter by MVP Hans-Georg Michna.
Take the time to go through it and it will usually pinpoint the problem
area(s) - http://winhlp.com/wxnet.htm

This is most commonly caused by a misconfigured firewall. I would suggest
that you run the Network Setup Wizard on both computers, making sure to
enable File & Printer Sharing, and reboot. The "gotcha" is that this will
turn on the XPSP2 Windows Firewall. If you aren't running a third-party
firewall or have an antivirus with "Internet Worm Protection" (like Symantec
or Norton 2005/06/07) which acts as a firewall, then you'll be fine. If you
however have third-party firewall software, you'll need to configure it to
allow the Local Area Network traffic as trusted. I usually suggest that you
do this with your firewall with an IP range. Ex. would be
192.168.1.0-192.168.1.254. Obviously you would substitute your correct
subnet.

http://www.ezlan.net/sharing.html

http://www.ezlan.net/Installing.html

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"gooderz" <good***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi everyone. I hope you can help me because I am at a loss. I have a Dell
> Dimension running XP home and an Acer laptop running XP Media Centre. I
> have
> recently bought a Linksys wireless router and have had no trouble setting
> it
> up so the desktop and laptop can both use the internet at the same time.
> Getting to the point, I know you can transfer files between the machines
> but
> I am unable to do this. I have run the "Set up or change your home or
> small
> office network" wizard and the "Set up a wireless network for a home or
> small
> office". The desktop has found the laptop but is unable to access it. The
> laptop doesn't seem to know that the desktop is even there. Any help would
> be
> greatly appreciated.
>

29 Nov 2006 3:30 AM

kathy montoya

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"gooderz" wrote:

> Hi everyone. I hope you can help me because I am at a loss. I have a Dell
> Dimension running XP home and an Acer laptop running XP Media Centre. I have
> recently bought a Linksys wireless router and have had no trouble setting it
> up so the desktop and laptop can both use the internet at the same time.
> Getting to the point, I know you can transfer files between the machines but
> I am unable to do this. I have run the "Set up or change your home or small
> office network" wizard and the "Set up a wireless network for a home or small
> office". The desktop has found the laptop but is unable to access it. The
> laptop doesn't seem to know that the desktop is even there. Any help would be
> greatly appreciated.
>