frustrated here trying to browse my home lan

[Mark]

i am trying to get 2 comps to connect so i can move some files around, have done this in the past but it has been awhile.

both are XP pro running through a linksys BEFSR41 verison 2 wired router.

i have them both on the same workgroup, and can ping and tracert each other, but when i go to map a new drive it never finds either one :(

i have turned off the windows firewalls, and rebooted each one and made sure they both could connect to the internet many times.

i know i opened up some ports in the router sometime ago, but wonder if that has anything to do with this ?

i have gone through the wizards many times and it ain't working, how would i set it up manually ?

any more info needed just ask please :)

i'm pretty sure it is user error :D

*edit*
here are a few pics of some settings and an error i got...

http://members.speedguide.net/thesnake/image11.jpg

http://members.speedguide.net/thesnake/image12.jpg

when i click on snakepit in the last photo, the hour glass comes up but it never finds anything
http://members.speedguide.net/thesnake/image13.jpg

[JackMDS]

Log to this page it has a lot of links to instructions to Windows Network Settings, and Sharing.

Link to: Windows Network - Installing & Sharing. (http://www.ezlan.net/sharing.html)

:thumb:

[Mark]

thanks Jack, i saw that site from one of your other posts while doing a search, i have done it all as far as i know and still the same thing happens here.

[JackMDS]

If NetBEUI did not do it you probably would have to reinstall the OS. :cry:

:cool:

[Mark]

If NetBEUI did not do it you probably would have to reinstall the OS. :cry:

:cool:

okay i have 3 PC's running now and they all can ping one another so i can't see reinstalling on them all.

i was going through my router setup control panel and saw this, think it should be set to router instead of gateway ?

http://members.speedguide.net/thesnake/gateway.jpg

[YeOldeStonecat]

okay i have 3 PC's running now and they all can ping one another so i can't see reinstalling on them all.

i was going through my router setup control panel and saw this, think it should be set to router instead of gateway ?


No, home market broadband routers are designed to run in gateway mode...they are your LANs gateway to the internet. The "router" mode is to be used, say, if you have satellite offices connected to a central office with something like frame relay circuits, creating a WAN.

Can you right click "My Network Places", and "Search" for the computers by computer name, and find them?

I don't like the wizards, just have your "local area connection"...and that's it. Make sure all networking services are loading and bound (checkmark in Client, as well as File and Print Sharing, and TCP). You didn't fiddle with anything else as far as Advanced settings did you?

Ports open/forwarded on the router are irrelevant.

History of any software firewalls? Third party even?

Logging on with the same usernames to keep things simple? Or at least adding the "users from the other computers" to the local users?

[Mark]

"Can you right click "My Network Places", and "Search" for the computers by computer name, and find them?"

i did this useing the ip address and it found the PC i wanted, a few minutes later i was able to map the drives i wanted, i did push the rest button on the router this time, before i was just unpluging it for a few minutes, maybe that was it ??

i still cannot open my copmuter and then map network drive, it never finds any other PC's there unless i type in the IP address, oh well this will work.


thanks for all the help gentleman :)

oh and happy new year