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File Sharing with Router
Name: Di5tortion Date: September 22, 2004 at 05:07:47 Pacific OS: Windows XP Prof CPU/Ram: 1.5GHz/256MB
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Hey, I've recently bought a laptop and have been running ICS with my desktop pc fine for the past month or so, but I've recently bought a router [U.S Robotics 8000A] and the internet works fine on both comps, but I cannot file share, I've ensured that the microsoft firewalls are not enabled and that file sharing is on both comps, there is an integrated firewall on the router, I have fiddled with the settings but still nothing, I can ping the desktop with my laptop but not vice versa, I've tried using both DHCP and Static IP addresses, both OS's are Windows XP, laptop is on home, and desktop is professional. Any help would be much appreciated. I have also looked around at other posts but I can't seem to find any help
Name: Di5tortion Date: September 22, 2004 at 05:08:38 Pacific
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I should also mention that file sharing used to work great :(
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Response Number 2
Name: XpUser Date: September 22, 2004 at 05:21:26 Pacific
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I should also mention that file sharing used to work great :(
Hi Di5tortion,
Some info missing...did all this come about after installing SP2?
i_XpUser
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Response Number 3
Name: Di5tortion Date: September 22, 2004 at 05:40:18 Pacific
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I have recently installed SP2 yeah, but it was still working fine, it's just since I added the router into play, sometimes it says that I don't have the rights to access Mshome, but sometimes it lets me in mshome but won't let me into either comp.
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Response Number 4
Name: XpUser Date: September 22, 2004 at 05:48:57 Pacific
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Whats the router brand name & model?
i_XpUser
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Response Number 5
Name: XpUser Date: September 22, 2004 at 05:54:11 Pacific
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Ops ignore my last post above. You already mentioned it in your original post. I'll be back soon...
i_XpUser
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Response Number 6
Name: Di5tortion Date: September 22, 2004 at 05:54:47 Pacific
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it's a U.S Robotics Router, Model Number: USR018000A, the user guide given is not very helpful in my opinion, thanks for trying to help by the way, it's appreciated.
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Response Number 7
Name: sanchosancho Date: September 22, 2004 at 06:34:52 Pacific
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didnt check the spec's on that router, but most of them will not filter traffic between the local subnet. Actually I dont think that any SOHO broadband router will. I'm liking the SP2 direction.
Do you have a switch or hub lying around. You can always drop it in place of the router. To eliminate or confirm your suspicion. You wont have internet access, but you can still see if netbios works.
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Response Number 8
Name: Di5tortion Date: September 22, 2004 at 07:03:34 Pacific
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No, I don't have a hub or switch, but I ran a network wizard yesterday and it created a network bridge for some reason which I didn't not want, so I deleted it and then file sharing worked, but I changed a setting by mistake and can't get it back now :s
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Response Number 9
Name: Di5tortion Date: September 22, 2004 at 16:16:51 Pacific
Summary: It's pretty simple task. You can check out these simple file sharing in XP or share file with user/group permission in XP pro articles to help you. ...
Summary: Sanjay I found out that my problem was not a router problem but an issue with Windows. First I had to make sure I had the same protocols installed on each machine, which I did. Make sure they where in...
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