Home network

MarcD_2

Hi

Hoping some knowledgeable person can help me out here!

I'm trying to set up a home network with my desktop pc, wireless router and centrino laptop.

I want to be able to view files on my desktop pc from the laptop, but everything i try doesn't seem to work.

Help please!

Cheers

padzster

Hi. I've pretty much got the same thing at home. This is what I've done.

Setup router software etc as per instructions. At some point you will give the router an ID which is called SSID, e.g. my_network.
Broadband plugged into router.
Ethernet connection between PC and router.
Put the SSID in the wireless settings on your laptop.

Best to keep all settings default, and put mode on Infrastructure. Also makes things more complicated if you add encryption (my network went funny when I set it up) so disable encryption unless you're particularly worried about security.

Hope this helps.

Genghis

What exactly have you tried?

Can you ping both machines from the other?
Configured firewalls to allow the access?
Can you get online on both machines?
Enabled file sharing?
Can you see the other machine through Network Places?

MarcD_2

Genghis

I can ping from the laptop to the desktop pc, but not from the desktop to the laptop.
I can get online from both machines via the router and have enabled file sharing.
In 'my workgroup computers' on the desktop i can see the laptop, but on the laptop it says 'ms home is not accessible and you might not have persmission to use this network resource...'

Any ideas??

Cheers

MarcD

boogiemaster

I had to run the network and internet connections in the control panel, then network set up wizard to share files.
I’m still not clued up? But I can send files to my other pc and I had to run the wizard on both machines.
Also the firewall may be blocking the connection as it may see it as a hacker or something?

wolfman

How are the pinging/accessing the machines? Via ip address or via workgroup name? Try doing so by ip address, problem always occur when using workgroup names.

Genghis

boogiemaster wrote:

Also the firewall may be blocking the connection as it may see it as a hacker or something?

Yeah, possibly a firewall on the laptop that is blocking the access.. disable all firewalls for the time being or configure them to accept the other IP?

Both computers in the same workgroup?

MarcD_2

Genghis

I have disabled both firewalls and tried the 'setup a home or office network wizard'. I did it on the dekstop pc then on the laptop, but i just don't know what the problem could be!

Could it be that the laptop is wireless? but then again i can access the net no probs on both.

Incase it helps i'm using a netgear dg834 router/adsl modem.

MarcD

Toxteth_OGrady

Try this from this website.

And in particular this Item.

The RestrictAnonymous registry value.

If you have both the following symptoms:

• You can ping the computer by IP and by name.
• When you type on another computer, replacing computername with the name of the inaccessible computer:
net view \\computername
you get one of the various "Error 5" error messages, like "System error 5 has occurred. Access is denied" or "Error 5: You do not currently have access to this file. ..."

This is in some cases caused by a registry setting named RestrictAnonymous. Go to the computer which you cannot access, start a registry editor and change the following registry value.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
\SYSTEM
\CurrentControlSet
\Control
\Lsa
Value name: RestrictAnonymous
Value type: DWORD
If the value is 1 or even 2, change it to 0, reboot and retest. If the problem is solved, leave the value at zero. If not, you can change it back if you like.
Check immediately afterwards and again after a reboot, whether the value changes back to non-zero on its own. If that happens, then you have to find the culprit, which can be spyware, a worm, or a badly designed security program. You can try to disable programs and services and retry until you find out which one is responsible. One known Trojan that changes this value (and also some network access policies) calls itself mcafee32.exe, trying to pose as the antivirus program of that name.
Background: RestrictAnonymous controls whether null sessions, sessions that work without any authentication and use the permissions of the groups Everyone and NETWORK, are allowed (value 0) or disallowed (value 1). The value 2 is obsolete for Windows XP.
Don't mistake this for the value named restrictanonymoussam, which controls null session SAM account name listings.