samebrian

I spent all of yesterday and some of today trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong here. You see, I have two computers, one a laptop running XP Home and the other a PC running XP Pro. They are both connected to a router (the laptop through wireless G). I ran the "set up a small or home office network" configuration wizard on both machines, and managed to set up a network where the two computers can see/ping each other, but they don't have access to each other's stuff. I even have shared my D drive on one, but I still get an error saying that I don't have access to get into the other computer. Can anyone help?

kjacob

Are they in the same workgroup? Right click My Computer > Properties and click the Computer Name tab. Write down the workgroup ID. If by chance the XP Pro machine is in a domain, join it to a workgroup of the same name as the other machine. Getting the workgroup to match between the two would be the first thing that I would try. Also, is the router the DHCP server? If not, it may be possible that the IP address is of a different subnet as the other machine. I would make the router the DHCP server if it is not. Can you ping by computer name? Can you map a drive to the other by IP with a user account on the target computer?