I’m tearing my hair out- spent hours!!!
Machine 1/Laptop= win xp pro; Machine 2/Desktop= win xp home; Wireless dlink G604T.
They used to be able to share everything ………… but NOW for some reason only the Desktop can see and access files on Laptop; Laptop can see the Desktop but won’t show anything except the Desktop’s name.
Have tried numerous reboots for each machine. Pings between are fine. I can also ping using the pc names as opposed to their ip addresses.
Whenever (Laptop) I try to add a network printer (connected to the Desktop) it asks for guest (greyed out) password and refuses. Guest is disabled on both. When enabled briefly (with passwords set) it made no difference. How did the guest account become flavour of the month?- it’s disabled on both machines…..
reading some recent threads, xp home has no option to uncheck “Use simple file sharing ” in Folders>View. (Does not make a difference when unchecking this in xp pro machine).
Both are on the same workgroup (no domain).
Been through microsoft help guides- everything as it should be er according to microsoft.
When the printer is connected to the laptop, the desktop sees i t and shares it.
Anyone have any advice??….apart from buying a mac.- really would appreciate it.
