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by ahowley

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I had two computers networked with a hub and I shared the c drive on my laptop. I swicthed the a wireless network now, I can't map my C drive anymore on the laptop. this is on 2 XP machines. I also recreated the network settings with no success.
Any reason why this would be happening?

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by p. dickason, cne, mcse, cca

Most wireless cable/dsl routers on the market now have a built in firewall which blocks open shares like what you have. You will have to go into it and reconfigure the default options to open up sharing on the local network. Hope this helps.
Thanks
Pete

by tduval

Can any computer ping each other ? Do you see the two on network neighberood ?

Also, uncheck XP firewall protection, and then use old time command like
net use f: \\comput1\c$
to access shared device.

But it's true that wifi network can use encryption to disable hacking. Check your network number on each computer.

by davidbhakta

What you need to do is make sure that you are assigning the correct IP scheme. Then make sure you can see all computers from each of the workstation as well as your laptop. Once you have done that you should be able to access your C drive on your laptop as long as you have it shared. From there, you just map the drive and you are good to go. But you need to understand that once you have disconnected your laptop from this small network, those mapped drives will no longer be open. Good luck!

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