Home Networking Problem

Hi everyone.

First of all, here is a simple diagram of my home network:

http://jwhite.co.uk/img05/network.jpg

Sorry its not a very good picture, but you get the idea.

I've made numerous attempts to set up the home network using the network wizard, with little success. A couple of times I have had the odd PC able to pick up the shared drives and folders on another, but can't get all the machines connected and sharing properly.

I tried disabling all firewalls but still no luck. No windows firewalls are enabled on the machines. All the TCP/IP settings are on Automatic. They are also all in the same workgroup.

Some of the computer names appear in "My Network Places" but still do not list their shared files/printers and all I recieve is the following error message:

http://jwhite.co.uk/img05/network_error.JPG

Any ideas???

Cheers!

 

first things first: right click your network connection on each machine and make sure "client for microsoft networks" and "File and printer sharing for microsoft networks" are all checked.

 

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

Link to: Windows Network - Installing & Sharing.