hewybo
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Have been trying for a week to set up a wired home network between my mom's machine and mine. They are ten feet apart in the same room. My main goal is to allow her to access the printers attached to my machine. Hers has XP Home, mine is Pro.
I have run the "Network Setup Wizard" a dozen times. I have visited all relevant M$ kb's, troubleshoots, and no less than four other sites' setup and troubleshooting areas. Here's what happens:
After restart, my mom's recognizes her own system on thew "my network places," but not mine. Mine takes forever under "entire network" to load the network name, then after a double-click, I get a message saying the net is not accessible, and I may not have admin priviliges, so I should contact the network administrator. As a result, I have contacted myself (I have admin on both machines) numerous times, and I cannot help me.
Both machines ping one another by IP address without a hitch, but neither can ping the other's computer name. Please, someone, tell me the one click I didn't make (or ten), cuz I didn't think I was this stupid. I'm beginning to wonder. Thanks- :knock:
I have run the "Network Setup Wizard" a dozen times. I have visited all relevant M$ kb's, troubleshoots, and no less than four other sites' setup and troubleshooting areas. Here's what happens:
After restart, my mom's recognizes her own system on thew "my network places," but not mine. Mine takes forever under "entire network" to load the network name, then after a double-click, I get a message saying the net is not accessible, and I may not have admin priviliges, so I should contact the network administrator. As a result, I have contacted myself (I have admin on both machines) numerous times, and I cannot help me.
Both machines ping one another by IP address without a hitch, but neither can ping the other's computer name. Please, someone, tell me the one click I didn't make (or ten), cuz I didn't think I was this stupid. I'm beginning to wonder. Thanks- :knock: