Quote:
Originally Posted by Ramrod
...both machines can see the router but they cannot connect to each other, in fact the desktop can't even see the laptop.
When the lappy tries to connect to the desktop I get (amongst other words) 'network path cannot be established'............wtf?
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Rammie,
Below is what I would expect from the net view command:
Code:
C:\Documents and Settings\Steve>net view \\athlon64
Shared resources at \\athlon64
Share name Type Used as Comment
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Mydocs Disk
photo Print hp photosmart P1000 series
Try this on each machine, once using it's own hostname, once using the other hostname, once using the other IPaddress and finally with no hostname, and post the results. This will establish whether the basic SMB networking is running on each computer.