peasepud 59 Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 At home I have a wireless network where the main PC and 2 laptops connect and share. I've just bought and setup a new PC to replace my rather old one and Im connected to the network no bother ie I have Internet through the router but cant seem to see the network and view other PCs. Im now on Vista and cant find the usual way to set up the network. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo 175 Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 Try Control Panel > Network and internet > Network and sharing center > Connect to a network Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasepud 59 Posted March 31, 2007 Author Share Posted March 31, 2007 Try Control Panel > Network and internet > Network and sharing center > Connect to a network Done that and Im in, what I've realised is that the original PC wasnt sharing its stuff even though it was set up to, the drives show it as being shared but when you attempt to access it from another it says I dont have the access rights to do so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasepud 59 Posted April 11, 2007 Author Share Posted April 11, 2007 Still having problems, the network can be seen on each of the machines I have. The main PC can see each of the three laptops and can access their drives however none of the other machines can access each other. As far as I can tell I've done the same setups on all of them. The main PC and the newest laptop is running Vista Pro, the other two laps are running XP. Over to you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shearergol 0 Posted April 11, 2007 Share Posted April 11, 2007 How exactly are you trying to access the drives? \\[machine name]\[sharename] ? What if you map a drive using a user which has been setup and given permiissions on all of the machines? Have you added an exception to file and print sharing on the windows firewall? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasepud 59 Posted April 14, 2007 Author Share Posted April 14, 2007 How exactly are you trying to access the drives? \\[machine name]\[sharename] ? Yes, although it shows the laptop as being there, when you try and access it, it searches for a while then says \\ADMIN-PC cannot be found. What if you map a drive using a user which has been setup and given permiissions on all of the machines? Tried that, no joy. Have you added an exception to file and print sharing on the windows firewall? I've even tried turning the Firewall off, no joy. After much mucking around I managed to share the media onto the laptop but no further. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
themags 0 Posted April 26, 2007 Share Posted April 26, 2007 try access the machines via their ip address rather than machine name are the accounts your using have passwords on? i could access a share on our lasses laptop because she as logged on but had no password on her account, very strange i know, but when she added one it fixed the problem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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