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I am having a problem accessing a windows xp shared folder on my network from my laptop (running windows media center). I cannot access the computer by \\computer-name or by \\ip-address. In fact, I cannot and never have been able to access any shared computer with this laptop (as far as I can remember). However, I CAN access a web server so long as I access it in the form of http://computer-ip. I have tried uninstalling and installing File and printer sharing for MS windows along with the Windows Network Client service to no avail. Any help anybody could provide would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Tyler S. Breton
Regards,
Tyler S. Breton
Western New England College '08
Computer Science
Programming Lang's:
C, C#, Java, Lisp, MASM, Visual Basic 6
Computer Science
Programming Lang's:
C, C#, Java, Lisp, MASM, Visual Basic 6
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are you administrator?
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Originally Posted by TheNNS 
are you administrator?
Western New England College '08
Computer Science
Programming Lang's:
C, C#, Java, Lisp, MASM, Visual Basic 6
Computer Science
Programming Lang's:
C, C#, Java, Lisp, MASM, Visual Basic 6
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has this always happened, or is it recent?
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As far as I can remember it's happened. I havent really tried to use the feature until now.
Western New England College '08
Computer Science
Programming Lang's:
C, C#, Java, Lisp, MASM, Visual Basic 6
Computer Science
Programming Lang's:
C, C#, Java, Lisp, MASM, Visual Basic 6
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well, i can't think of much other than your account is private, or network sharing is off.
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can you ping the other computer by IP address?
what about by it's computer name?
do you have a firewall installed on the laptop like Norton Internet Security?
are all the computers on the same workgroup or domain?
what about by it's computer name?
do you have a firewall installed on the laptop like Norton Internet Security?
are all the computers on the same workgroup or domain?
Last edited by Spriggan; Jun 15th, 2007 at 9:40 pm. Reason: never you mind
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I can ping by ip.
I cannot ping by computer name.
No firewall.
Same workgroup.
I have a feeling its a WINS issue.
Regards,
Tyler S. Breton
I cannot ping by computer name.
No firewall.
Same workgroup.
I have a feeling its a WINS issue.
Regards,
Tyler S. Breton
Western New England College '08
Computer Science
Programming Lang's:
C, C#, Java, Lisp, MASM, Visual Basic 6
Computer Science
Programming Lang's:
C, C#, Java, Lisp, MASM, Visual Basic 6
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