Hi Dave,
You need to make sure that both machines are part of the same workgroup:
Right Click on My Computer
Select Properties
Select the "Computer Name" tab.
Check that the bit that says Workgroup is the same for bothe machines, if it isn't click "Change" to make it so.
Before you leave this screen you might want to change the Name of each machine so that it is something that you can remember Laptop and Desktop might be good
The next thing that you need to do is make sure that the PCs can see each other across the network.
Close the properties window.
Click Start > Run
In the Run box type cmd.
You should now see the command prompt.
Type "ping
machinename" without the " and replacing
machinename with the name of the other machine.
So, doing this from the Laptop (and assuming that you used Laptop and Desktop as the names) you would type "ping Desktop" without the ".
Hopefully you should get something that looks like:
Quote:
Pinging Desktop [192.168.1.***] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.1.***: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.1.***: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.1.***: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.1.***: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=128
Ping statistics for 192.168.1.***:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 1ms, Maximum = 1ms, Average = 1ms
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Once you've done that post back and let us know if it worked and we can either go to the next step or solve any problems you're having.