Storm311 Posted December 22, 2006 CID Share Posted December 22, 2006 Here it is: Have a laptop on the network at home (Windows Media) and I have it hardwired to the router with my Cat5 (don't like wireless) and I have set it up to the home network. I can access files on any other computer from the laptop, but when I try to access the laptop from another client access is denied for some reason, anybody have any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted December 22, 2006 CID Share Posted December 22, 2006 you need to turn on file and printer sharing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storm311 Posted December 22, 2006 Author CID Share Posted December 22, 2006 you need to turn on file and printer sharing. Already on and installed into the NIC card properties. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storm311 Posted December 22, 2006 Author CID Share Posted December 22, 2006 Also cannot access the computer by using the //computername command, yet I can see it when I click on show workgroup computers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted December 22, 2006 CID Share Posted December 22, 2006 Already on and installed into the NIC card properties. thats not it. you need to configure windows to allow it. run the network setup wizard, the option for it will be in there i think it is the last step or one of the last. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storm311 Posted December 22, 2006 Author CID Share Posted December 22, 2006 thats not it. you need to configure windows to allow it. run the network setup wizard, the option for it will be in there i think it is the last step or one of the last. Yeah, said it was done already and also it is installed in the properties. I ran the setup wizard, everything checks out there, disabled all firewalls on the computer, it has a valid IP address for my network, can see and access all other computers, and can copy files to other computers on the network, but just cannot be accessed by anybody, have tried from 4 other computers there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storm311 Posted December 23, 2006 Author CID Share Posted December 23, 2006 Any other ideas because I have tried just about everything else there is and still no resolve to the issue! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcin541 Posted December 23, 2006 CID Share Posted December 23, 2006 make sure your network name is the same on all pc's. It should be MSHOME or whatever your other one's are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FallowEarth Posted December 23, 2006 CID Share Posted December 23, 2006 Are you prompted for a password, or given an error message? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storm311 Posted December 24, 2006 Author CID Share Posted December 24, 2006 Are you prompted for a password, or given an error message? No, the network wizard sets up correctly, I've manually opened the necessary ports to connect, yet still I get the error host is not accessible. Access denied... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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