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From: k8an on 12 Jun 2008 05:45 Hi I have a network of 6 computers via wired router. I am only able to access 5 out of the 6 PCs on My Network Places. The 1 computer in question: - I have run the 'Set up a home or small office network' wizard but I still cannot see the files/folders of the other PCs. - I have successfully connected to the internet via the network - When I click 'view workgroup computers', nothing appears - When I click 'view workgroup computers' from any of the other PCs, I am only able to see the PC I am having a problem with but unable to view/access the files/folders when I double click on the icon. I would appreciate your help in helping me to solve this problem. Thanks k8an
From: Roberto de Cornielle on 12 Jun 2008 07:34 See Malke's response to a similar question I posted recently [Roberto Cornielle - access problem] rgds Roberto "k8an" <ketan(a)kpengineering.co.uk> wrote in message news:55d26348-985a-4ada-a6b2-bca3cc974aa4(a)z66g2000hsc.googlegroups.com... > Hi > > I have a network of 6 computers via wired router. I am only able to > access 5 out of the 6 PCs on My Network Places. > > The 1 computer in question: > - I have run the 'Set up a home or small office network' wizard but I > still cannot see the files/folders of the other PCs. > - I have successfully connected to the internet via the network > - When I click 'view workgroup computers', nothing appears > - When I click 'view workgroup computers' from any of the other PCs, I > am only able to see the PC I am having a problem with but unable to > view/access the files/folders when I double click on the icon. > > I would appreciate your help in helping me to solve this problem. > > Thanks > > k8an >
From: Bill Meyer on 12 Jun 2008 08:04 Check to make sure each computer has a unique name and has the same work group name. The response to check on a previous question was from an answer to me which said that you can only have 5 connections on an XP home system. This is sort of true except that you can have as many systems as you like on the network but no more than 5 can connect directly to one of these. I have 14 systems on a wired network which all share a program on one computer. I am running a combination of XP Home and Vista on all of these and they all show on the network and now can connect to all. My problem would up to be an IP address conflict which gave me the error that I had too many connections. -- Have A Great Day! Bill Meyer
From: k8an on 13 Jun 2008 07:24 On Jun 12, 1:04 pm, "Bill Meyer" <gin...(a)email.com> wrote: > Check to make sure each computer has a unique name and has the same work > group name. The response to check on a previous question was from an answer > to me which said that you can only have 5 connections on an XP home system.. > This is sort of true except that you can have as many systems as you like on > the network but no more than 5 can connect directly to one of these. I have > 14 systems on a wired network which all share a program on one computer. I > am running a combination of XP Home and Vista on all of these and they all > show on the network and now can connect to all. My problem would up to be an > IP address conflict which gave me the error that I had too many connections. > > -- > Have A Great Day! > Bill Meyer Hi Bill Thank you for your message. How can I get all 6 PCs to appear on my network places? What options do I have? Do I need to change my OS? Buy new hardware? I really need to get all 6 PCs talking to each other. Thanks for your help. k8an
From: Malke on 13 Jun 2008 08:51
k8an wrote: > How can I get all 6 PCs to appear on my network places? > What options do I have? Do I need to change my OS? Buy new hardware? > > I really need to get all 6 PCs talking to each other. You don't need to buy anything. You just need to set up networking properly. From your (scanty) description, I'd guess that you have some misconfigured firewalls. Here are general network troubleshooting steps. Not everything may be applicable to your situation, so just take the bits that are. It may look daunting, but if you follow the steps at the links and suggestions below systematically and calmly, you will have no difficulty in setting up your sharing. For XP, start by running the Network Setup Wizard on all machines (see caveat in Item A below). Problems sharing files between computers on a network are generally caused by 1) a misconfigured firewall; or 2) inadvertently running two firewalls such as the built-in Windows Firewall and a third-party firewall; and/or 3) not having identical user accounts and passwords on all Workgroup machines; 4) trying to create shares where the operating system does not permit it. A. Configure firewalls on all machines to allow the Local Area Network (LAN) traffic as trusted. With Windows Firewall, this means allowing File/Printer Sharing on the Exceptions tab. Normally running the Network Setup Wizard on XP will take care of this for those machines.The only "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 Norton 2006/07) which acts as a firewall, then you're fine. With third-party firewalls, I usually configure the LAN allowance with an IP range. Ex. would be 192.168.1.0-192.168.1.254. Obviously you would substitute your correct subnet. Do not run more than one firewall. B. For ease of organization, put all computers in the same Workgroup. This is done from the System applet in Control Panel, Computer Name tab. C. Create matching user accounts and passwords on all machines. You do not need to be logged into the same account on all machines and the passwords assigned to each user account can be different; the accounts/passwords just need to exist and match on all machines. If you wish a machine to boot directly to the Desktop (into one particular user's account) for convenience, you can do this. The instructions at this link work for both XP and Vista: Configure Windows to Automatically Login (MVP Ramesh) - http://windowsxp.mvps.org/Autologon.htm D. If one or more of the computers is XP Pro or Media Center, turn off Simple File Sharing (Folder Options>View tab). E. Create shares as desired. XP Home does not permit sharing of users' home directories or Program Files, but you can share folders inside those directories. A better choice is to simply use the Shared Documents folder. For XP and Windows 2003 Server, MVP Hans-Georg Michna has an excellent small network troubleshooter. http://winhlp.com/wxnet.htm Malke -- MS-MVP Elephant Boy Computers www.elephantboycomputers.com Don't Panic! |