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July 26, 2007 at 09:53 PM
swarajban

Can’t View XP Computer on Home Network

by swarajban . Updated 18 years, 11 months ago

I’ve had a small home network set-up for a couple years with 2 xp laptops, 1 xp pc, and a network hard drive (I have a linksys wireless router where the PCs are all wireless and the network hard drive is connected via ethernet cable to the router). Everything was working fine until I upgraded the hard drive on one of the xp laptops and had to reinstall everything. I added the new laptop to the network and turned on File and Printer Sharing. I can print to the upgraded laptop’s computer over the network and I can access the laptop’s files by entering \\computer name, but whenever I go to ‘My Network Places’ the shared files do not show up and when I click ‘View Workgroup Computers’ my laptop doesn’t show up.

Can anyone help me fix this?

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