Newbie question

Well, the cable guy came and plugged in my broadband connection, then I
connected up my PCs to the new wireless kit I just bought and with
careful reading of the the instuctions got them to all access the
internet no problem .... but .... they cannot see each other's hard
drives.

Could some kind technically-minded person advise whether I am chasing a
false dream here ? All I want is to be able to copy Word etc.
documents from my laptop to my desktop...wirelessly.

All computers are running Windows XP.
All computers have IP addresses in the format 192.168.1.xxx
All computers have "File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks"
enabled
All computers belong to the workgroup "HOMELAN"

Yet when I browse to My Network Places, then Entire Network, then
Microsoft Windows Networks, the Homelan folder displays but it is
empty.

Help would be greatly appreciated !

Thanks

Nick

fisherofsouls@hotmail.com

Sorry, some more info I should have included:

I have shared a folder on the laptop hard drive.

Also, on the deskop, when I try to view the HOMELAN folder, I get the
following message: "Homelan is not accessible. You might not have
permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of
this server to find out if you have access permissions. The list of
servers for this workgroup is not currently available."

Finally, the desktop can PING the laptop no problem, but when the
laptop tries to ping the desktop, the request times out !!!

Nick

fisherofsouls@hotmail.com

hi
in windows explorer go to the drive that you want to share.click on the
folder that you want to share.right click > sharing & security >sharing
> network sharing & security window.

just follow the wizard...

emilio.aguinaldo@gmail.com

Hi
May be this can Help: http://www.ezlan.net/sharing.html
Jack (MVP-Networking).


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> Well, the cable guy came and plugged in my broadband connection, then I
> connected up my PCs to the new wireless kit I just bought and with
> careful reading of the the instuctions got them to all access the
> internet no problem .... but .... they cannot see each other's hard
> drives.
>
> Could some kind technically-minded person advise whether I am chasing a
> false dream here ? All I want is to be able to copy Word etc.
> documents from my laptop to my desktop...wirelessly.
>
> All computers are running Windows XP.
> All computers have IP addresses in the format 192.168.1.xxx
> All computers have "File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks"
> enabled
> All computers belong to the workgroup "HOMELAN"
>
> Yet when I browse to My Network Places, then Entire Network, then
> Microsoft Windows Networks, the Homelan folder displays but it is
> empty.
>
> Help would be greatly appreciated !
>
> Thanks
>
> Nick
>

Jack