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by namitzu

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When i am running Small-office-home-office setup wizard, one of my workstation is not showing the step: share my files and printer option.

due to which i am not getting to access that station till yet.

any required installation is pending or .. what is the cause...??? please help

also cant ping on another station
neither from 192.168.1.2 - 192.168.1.14 or 192.168.1.14 - 192.168.1.2
Firewall on both are turned off

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by computercookie

as administrator, or an administrator account.

Check that you have the right drivers for your network card.

Do you have a little green light blinking next to your network card at the back of the computer?

by namitzu

The driver is all ok. ( of realtake)
And the lights on both the nic cards do blink.

it was well functioning before and i just had clean windows setup (no problem on drivers after installation)

I am not getting the option "turn on file and printer sharing" on SOHO setup wizard on one computer. Is the problem due to this???

and yes i am login with administrator on both not the another admin account.

by dips1213

Did u check the workstation or server services running ...these should be enabled and started ...

Apart from this check out ur network properties ...file and printer sharing for microsoft network should be checked .......

this can be one of the reasons ......

by namitzu

p2p direct cable ...
there is no defect on cable ...
i m using it right now.

IPs:
192.168.5.2
192.168.5.14

by computercookie

Start > Run > cmd, enter
From one computer, type
"ping 192.168.5.2",
from the other "ping 192.168.5.14".

If can't ping, run ipconfig/all from the same location on both machines.

Remember, both machines have to have the identical subnet, non-identical machine names and identical workgroup names!

by seanferd

can you right-click on a drive, and select "sharing"? You can set it up that way. If Windows firewall is enabled, you will need to allow the connection.

by namitzu

so i think the problems are different.

the inflection activity is held only on my laptop and my friend's PC at my workplace.

but my laptop is really slow on startup... i have download a spyware .. later i'll try to scan with this.

thanks for the help

c ya .. tomorrow
ba bye

by seanferd

I mean hard drive (C:).

Sorry to hear you have spyware.

Good luck.

Edit: Sorry, I see your questions about spyware in the other thread. I did not notice both threads were started by you. This is why you mention the pen drive. I see now.

Again, good luck.

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