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re: one pc on network is intermittently available.
Sunday, January 1, 2006 at 11:56 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ian Dobison
(1 messages posted)
Thom and Phillip,
Thank you very much for your informative steps!!! TWO YEARS I have been trying to
setup a wireless fileshare for my Dad, and with his new Linksys router we were able
to do it after 4 hours today. If only I had found this website first we could have
had it done quicker.
Just some background for others. We have a desktop and a laptop...the desktop was
accessing the laptop but not the other way around. Having used the steps described
by Thom below (and editing the registry as described further up), we were able to
get the laptop accessing the desktop PC.
Thank you very much again!!!!!
Chris and a happy father, Ian.
On Sunday, January 23, 2005 at 4:46 pm, Thom MacDonald wrote:
>Well - In total frustration, I have tried each tip I could find on the WEB - All
>to no avail! Ironically, before I had put the XP-SP2 on my machines, I had absolutely
>"0" problems! I use a LinkSys Wireless Router... The suggestions from LinkSys are
>to lower the RTS/FRAG/BEACON settings of the router - I did that, and still no-go.
>
>What I finally did was go to "My Network Places/Add a network place" and put in
"\\IPADDRESS\SHAREDDRIVE"
>and BINGO IT WORKED!
>
>IPADDRESS = IP of the Computer you're connecting to (find this by going to "Start\Run\CMD"
>and type in "ipconfig" on the computer you're trying to connect to.
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>SHAREDDRIVE = The sharing name of the folder you're trying to access.
>
>You can access printers in the same fashion:
>"\\IPADDRESS\SHAREDPRINTERNAME"
>
>This most definetely was a convuluted way to get my computers to talk to each other,
>but it works! Now if Uncle Mickey would address the real issue everyone will be
happy!
>
>
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