[BrentN]

Well I can see all the folders that I have shared only on the machine that I am using.

So I have a notebook and a desktop running on a network. A linksys wireless router connects the two to my modem, in which the notebook is running on a wireless connection and the desktop is hardwired in.

Everything was working fine until last week, something happened becuase now I can't access folders that I have shared between machines.

So on the desktop when I click on 'networking places' it shows the four folders on the desktop that are shared, but none on the latop, reciprocate the problem for the notebook.

So what happened?

The workgroup is both the same name on both machines.
I have enabled file and printer sharing
I have folders that are assigned to sharing.

What am I missing for it not to work any longer?

let me know, cause I use this all the time and now I'm fucked.

thank you.

[tex]

welcome to the reason they redesigned the network stack in vista

my advice would be reinstall the windows file sharing driver under the network connection's properties. that is what usually works for me.

[BrentN]

I'll give it a shot, but just to clarify

Uncheck it, reboot, recheck it hit apply and reboot? right?

[Jamsan]

I just go to \\ip (ie. \\192.168.1.2). That should take you directly to that computer's shares. I only have occasional luck going to my network places and having the shares show up there.

[ivwshane]

Interesting. I have a similar issue. I can access my shares by IP only from one machine and from that machine I can access the other computers shares via UNC or IP.

I haven't found a reason for it yet.

Both computers are on the same workgroup
Both have the same username and password
both have simple file sharing turned off
both have shares with full control available to "everyone"
both are winXP sp/2

[Jamsan]

i guess another cheapo way to do it is to manually enter your computer's names & ips into your hosts file, and then just access the shares via run using \\computername.. requires remembering less ip's to access shares..

[tex]

and no dhcp...

you don't uncheck it. go to the network adaptor properties, uninstall it, then (re)install it.

[BrentN]

didn't work..

what a fucking pile.

Thanks for the advice though, it was worth a shot.

[ivwshane]

I didn't change anything and now I can access everything fine

[BrentN]

Ok I fixed it.

I did the following and it worked.

Renamed each machine
made sure they were both on the same workgroup name
installed IPX protocol on both machines
Turned off windows firewall on both machines (one machine had it on)
Restarted and then assigned new shared folders

Worked like a charm.

Not sure if all those steps are necessary, but thats what I did and it started to work.

[tex]

IPX is definately unnecessary. Unless you're using AD, I believe all you truly need is NetBUEI (TCP/IP isn't even necessary, but I think you can't uninstall it as of WinXP...)

Yeah, sometimes renaming the machines will work too. God I hate windows networking.