Home networking issues

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by doug684, Jan 27, 2008.

  1. doug684

    doug684 Private E-2

    Well I just setup my PC in my room and want to network it with the PC in the living room. All my pictures, movies, music, etc etc are on that computer. I ran the network setup wizard on both computers and selected the same options for both.

    Now when I go to My Network Places on the living room PC it pulls up the shared folders between both PCs. When I go to it on the one in my room it doesn't pull up anything from the living room computer.

    They only thing that is on in Windows firewall on both computers. I tried the \\computer name and it works on the PC in the living room. On my computer it doesn't do anything. On the living room PC I can see all the files that I am sharing from my PC, but when I go to my PC I can't see anything.

    Both have been rebooted several times and checked to make sure the work groups were the same. Changed both to the same user name and password also.

    In the living room I put in \\Dmj and it will pull up my computer. Put in \\Family and it will pull up all the files I am sharing on that computer.

    Now when I go to my room and type in \\Dmj or \\Family it says: "Windows cannot find "\\Family'. Check the spelling and try again, or try searching for the item by clicking the Start button and then clicking search"

    I was told to open a dos window and ping the family computer. I got this:

    C:\Documents and Settings\Doug>ping Family

    Pinging Family [192.168.15.3] with 32 bytes of data:

    Reply from 192.xxx.xx.x: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
    Reply from 192.xxx.xx.x: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
    Reply from 192.xxx.xx.x: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
    Reply from 192.xxx.xx.x: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128

    Ping statistics for 192.xxx.xx.x:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 <0% loss>,
    Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms

    C:\Documents and Settings\Doug>

    Any ideas? Thanks in advance
     

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