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June 24, 2008 at 06:10 PM
skris88

3 PCs. “New” PC won’t see shared PC/folder

by skris88 . Updated 17 years, 11 months ago

Hi

I have a home network with 3 PCs – a desktop with printer, LaptopA and LaptopB.

Laptop B was infected with 20000 files affected so it was reformated with the original Windows CD (all partitions deleted and new ones created). The original CD was was pre-SP1 so SP2 was installed. The manufacturer’s WiFi driver failed to work (probably only works with pre-SP1) so a USB WiFI adaptor was connected up – LaptopB surfs the Internet perfectly.

However while LaptopA accesses the shared folder and shared printer of the desktop machine and can even see the device name of LaptopB on Network Neighbourhood (and PINGS work three-ways), LaptopB fails to see or connect to the desktop with “\\servername\foldername”.

What do I need to MAD (modify, add or delete) on LaptopB?? All are on the same MSHOME workgroup.

Thanks!

Cheers,
skris88

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