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File sharing on two laptops.
Name: inventor1949 Date: November 14, 2007 at 21:56:41 Pacific OS: WinXp media CPU/Ram: 2.00 GHz, 2.00 GB RAM Product: Inspiron E1705
Comment:
Hi this is driving nuts, First I have at&t express card for axes to Internet then I have crossover cat-5 cable connecting the two laptops I have Internet axes from the second laptop and I have setup file sharing on laptop 1 and 2 the laptop names are setup and so is the work-group BUT I don't see the shared files in other laptop I have read and read and read and can't get it working. please what I'm doing wrong?
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Name: inventor1949 Date: November 15, 2007 at 08:29:33 Pacific
Reply:
File explorer?
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Response Number 3
Name: wanderer Date: November 15, 2007 at 12:27:33 Pacific
Reply:
Explorer. Same difference :-)
Type what was suggested in the address line and hit the go arrow to engage.
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Response Number 4
Name: inventor1949 Date: November 15, 2007 at 16:37:50 Pacific
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I did and >Windows cannot find '\\other-laptop-IP'. File sharing setting? do I have to have the same file shared in both laptops?
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Response Number 5
Name: picohat Date: November 16, 2007 at 07:30:36 Pacific
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\\other-laptop-IP
That "other-laptop-IP" means the IP address of other laptop that you need to access. You can type following command on other labtop's command prompt to find the IP.
ipconfig /all
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Response Number 6
Name: inventor1949 Date: November 16, 2007 at 10:55:07 Pacific
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I do have the IP and do I have to do 192.168.0.1 on the host and 192.168.0.2 on the other? because right now it shows 192.168.0.82 on the other, Note: when I try to change to "Use the fallowing IP address" on the other laptop to "192.168.0.2" then I loose my network connection that I have setup to the at&t express air card on the host laptop. Note: the network connection is done with crossover cat-5 cable.
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Response Number 7
Name: wanderer Date: November 19, 2007 at 13:14:16 Pacific
Reply:
Odds are its the windows firewall blocking your file share access. Disable it as test. If all works, re-able it and configure it to trust the other pc.
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