No network connection wireless share files and printers

Hi
this thing is driving me crasy !!

I have a desktop with XP home dated 2002
I have a netgear DG834G wireless router
I have a laptop with XP Pro dated 2006
I have connected my desktop to the wireless netgear router.
I would like to have access to my printer HP 720C connected to the desktop
via my laptop.
I would like also to have access to files stored on my desktop via my laptop.

What I have done so far:
I have shared my printer. I have a little hand under the HP Icon
I have transfered my files to shared documents folder
I have disabled windows firewall
I have also listed the IP address of my laptop and desktop in the norton
firewall trusted zone area
I have tried to ping both computers successfully
I have named both computers with the same workgroup name.

When I select my network places, then view workgroup computer on the
desktop, I can see the desktop icon. When I do the same on the laptop I have
got nothing.

So after doing all the things above I don't know what else to do

Please help

Thank you in advance

=?Utf-8?B?WGF2?=

You might want to work through this page: http://winhlp.com/wxnet.htm and
you might take a look here, http://www.ezlan.net/wireless.html

--
David Hettel

Please post any reply as a follow-up message in the news group
for everyone to see. I'm sorry, but I don't answer questions
addressed directly to me in E-mail or news groups.

Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Program
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com

DISCLAIMER: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
confers no rights


"Xav" <> wrote in message
news:B276871E-B16F-4D68-B660-...
> Hi
> this thing is driving me crasy !!
>
> I have a desktop with XP home dated 2002
> I have a netgear DG834G wireless router
> I have a laptop with XP Pro dated 2006
> I have connected my desktop to the wireless netgear router.
> I would like to have access to my printer HP 720C connected to the desktop
> via my laptop.
> I would like also to have access to files stored on my desktop via my
> laptop.
>
> What I have done so far:
> I have shared my printer. I have a little hand under the HP Icon
> I have transfered my files to shared documents folder
> I have disabled windows firewall
> I have also listed the IP address of my laptop and desktop in the norton
> firewall trusted zone area
> I have tried to ping both computers successfully
> I have named both computers with the same workgroup name.
>
> When I select my network places, then view workgroup computer on the
> desktop, I can see the desktop icon. When I do the same on the laptop I
> have
> got nothing.
>
> So after doing all the things above I don't know what else to do
>
> Please help
>
> Thank you in advance

Hi David

I had a look at both links provided.
I used them but could not find answers to my problem. The problem of
connectivity is still there.
Any more help possible?
Thank you
best Regards

"David Hettel" wrote:

> You might want to work through this page: http://winhlp.com/wxnet.htm and
> you might take a look here, http://www.ezlan.net/wireless.html
>
> --
> David Hettel
>
> Please post any reply as a follow-up message in the news group
> for everyone to see. I'm sorry, but I don't answer questions
> addressed directly to me in E-mail or news groups.
>
> Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Program
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
>
> DISCLAIMER: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
> confers no rights
>
>
> "Xav" <> wrote in message
> news:B276871E-B16F-4D68-B660-...
> > Hi
> > this thing is driving me crasy !!
> >
> > I have a desktop with XP home dated 2002
> > I have a netgear DG834G wireless router
> > I have a laptop with XP Pro dated 2006
> > I have connected my desktop to the wireless netgear router.
> > I would like to have access to my printer HP 720C connected to the desktop
> > via my laptop.
> > I would like also to have access to files stored on my desktop via my
> > laptop.
> >
> > What I have done so far:
> > I have shared my printer. I have a little hand under the HP Icon
> > I have transfered my files to shared documents folder
> > I have disabled windows firewall
> > I have also listed the IP address of my laptop and desktop in the norton
> > firewall trusted zone area
> > I have tried to ping both computers successfully
> > I have named both computers with the same workgroup name.
> >
> > When I select my network places, then view workgroup computer on the
> > desktop, I can see the desktop icon. When I do the same on the laptop I
> > have
> > got nothing.
> >
> > So after doing all the things above I don't know what else to do
> >
> > Please help
> >
> > Thank you in advance
>
>
>

Xav wrote:

> Hi
> this thing is driving me crasy !!
>
> I have a desktop with XP home dated 2002
> I have a netgear DG834G wireless router
> I have a laptop with XP Pro dated 2006
> I have connected my desktop to the wireless netgear router.
> I would like to have access to my printer HP 720C connected to the
> desktop via my laptop.
> I would like also to have access to files stored on my desktop via my
> laptop.
>
> What I have done so far:
> I have shared my printer. I have a little hand under the HP Icon
> I have transfered my files to shared documents folder
> I have disabled windows firewall
> I have also listed the IP address of my laptop and desktop in the
> norton firewall trusted zone area
> I have tried to ping both computers successfully
> I have named both computers with the same workgroup name.
>
> When I select my network places, then view workgroup computer on the
> desktop, I can see the desktop icon. When I do the same on the laptop
> I have got nothing.

If one or more of the computers is XP Pro or Media Center:

a. If you need Pro's ability to set fine-grained permissions, turn off
Simple File Sharing (Folder Options>View tab) and create identical user
accounts/passwords on all computers.

b. If you don't care about using Pro's advanced features, leave the
Simple File Sharing enabled.

Simple File Sharing means that Guest (network) is enabled. This means
that anyone without a user account on the target system can use its
resources. This is a security hole but only you can decide if it
matters in your situation.

Then create shares as desired. XP Home does not permit sharing of users'
home directories (My Documents) or Program Files, but you can share
folders inside those directories. A better choice is to simply use the
Shared Documents folder.

Malke
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

You got some good general directions.

I would temporarily "disable" Norton's just to see if its a misconfiguration
there may cause the firewall to block something. There were some issues when
I had to configure Nortons

Then I go to Network places to see if I can ""add a Network place" using
browse.




"Xav" wrote:

> Hi
> this thing is driving me crasy !!
>
> I have a desktop with XP home dated 2002
> I have a netgear DG834G wireless router
> I have a laptop with XP Pro dated 2006
> I have connected my desktop to the wireless netgear router.
> I would like to have access to my printer HP 720C connected to the desktop
> via my laptop.
> I would like also to have access to files stored on my desktop via my laptop.
>
> What I have done so far:
> I have shared my printer. I have a little hand under the HP Icon
> I have transfered my files to shared documents folder
> I have disabled windows firewall
> I have also listed the IP address of my laptop and desktop in the norton
> firewall trusted zone area
> I have tried to ping both computers successfully
> I have named both computers with the same workgroup name.
>
> When I select my network places, then view workgroup computer on the
> desktop, I can see the desktop icon. When I do the same on the laptop I have
> got nothing.
>
> So after doing all the things above I don't know what else to do
>
> Please help
>
> Thank you in advance