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Gear / Technical Help => Post-Processing, Computer / Streaming / Internet Devices & Related Activity => Topic started by: The Kilted Taper on February 18, 2005, 10:43:30 AM
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Can anyone point me to a good "idiot's guide" for networking 2 - 3 computers together via a router. One computer being wireless, and the others wired. I've got computer names set, and workgroup name is the same, but I just can't get them to see eachother....
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personally, i never bothered with all that "home networking" business. i just use run an FTP server on one computer then login to it with another to swap files.
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Make sure that you have a Windows password set for the main machine you are trying to access.
from the command prompt type:
\\computer name\c$ (c$ is the drive you wish to access, d$ for d drive, etc)
That should prompt you to login and enter a password and you should be kosher. Do this with each computer. If you want all machines to be able to talk in each direction, do this for each computer.
If none of this makes sense, MS should have a good tutorial on ther site. Good Luck!
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You could probably just edit the LMHOST file on the machines as a down and dirty way of gaining resolution to their machine names.
What is LHOSTS? (http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/L/LMHOSTS_file.html)
An example of how to write an LMHOST file (http://gsbwww.uchicago.edu/computing/lmhosts.htm)
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http://www.mytechsupport.ca/support/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=49
that's a pretty decent checklist.
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sorry to hijack, but I am wondering if it is easy to do this at home with a router if one of my computers is a mac and the other is a pc. Never bothered to try (i just email or ftp files between computers) but if it's easy enough, I will do it.
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Curious why this was moved to "computer recording help" when it has nothing to do with recording. ???
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sorry to hijack, but I am wondering if it is easy to do this at home with a router if one of my computers is a mac and the other is a pc. Never bothered to try (i just email or ftp files between computers) but if it's easy enough, I will do it.
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=54704
Should get you started. Good Luck!
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sorry to hijack, but I am wondering if it is easy to do this at home with a router if one of my computers is a mac and the other is a pc. Never bothered to try (i just email or ftp files between computers) but if it's easy enough, I will do it.
if the Mac is OSX, then it is actually easier to see/share with PCS than it is PC/PC...strange but its true
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So I am a step closer. On my laptop I can see the other 2 computers that are on the network. However, On the desktop, I can see nothing. I can transfer from the desktop to the lap top, but not back in the other direction. I haven't even bothered to check what's going on with the 3rd computer. Any thoughts?
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Depends on the OS. If you can see 1 machine from the other then it would seem that you have the IP setup correct. I would just dbl check that all of the machines are a member of the Workgroup you are using.
Also you will want to create user accounts on each machine. For example if you login as Administrator you will want the administrative password to be the same on each machine unless when you try to connect to the other machines it will prompt you for a password.
Or if you use a different login name you will want to create that user account on each of the machines and set the privileges accordingly.
If you are having trouble with 1 machine and not others, does the machine u cannot see have a firewall running on it ?
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They are both running XP SP2. Firewalls are all turned off. I do not have to log on either computer.
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Could be the issue. What are you logged in as admin or a different user ?
XP Pro or Home edition ?
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we use MS windows networking at my job. I have found what kindms says to be true: youhave to use the same user name and password for each machine in order to "see" the other machine(s).
For example, all of our machines have a user name of "taxprep" with the same password set up in users and groups. this is the user group which shares data back and froth.
so what Mike is saying is that each of your 3 machines needs to have the same password set up for admistrator OR you should set up a new user on all 3 machines named the same on all 3.
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Home on both, sorry. The desktop just goes right to the desktop, no log in asked for. The laptop has 2 profiles, but no passwords are asked for.
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is your router configured for DHCP clients? With Linksys routers you have to set how many DHCP users allowed, I think it comes pre set to 50, but yours may be set to 0.?????
for instance, we start the ip addressing at 192.168.1.100 and run it through 192.168.1.150.
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Yep, it's set for 50. This has stumpped my father (Electrical Engineer, PhD., buils computers and writes software for a living, well used too, he's retired now).
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make sure you enable file sharing on a drive or folder on each box...
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If they log u in by selecting the user name then the permissions and accounts have already been created. Go to START -> Settings -> Control Panel and dbl click on User Accounts. see what you have in there and make sure your account has Admin privies.
Make sure the accounts are on both machines witht he same permissions.
The permissions issue will only clear up being able to connect to the machines without being asked for passwords.
By default if the machines are all part of the same WORKGROUP you should be able to see them listed when you navigate the windows Network. If they are all part of the same workgroup then try SHARING a folder on each machine and see if you are able to see that ? If you havent done so already you can always have problem machine joi a different WORKGROUP and then re-join the workgroup you want it on to see if that helps
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Thanks all for your suggestions. I will play around with this a bit tonight once I get home...
On a somewhat related note, I CAN NOT change the workgroup name on the desktop. Any ideas why that may be happening?
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make sure you are logged in with an account that has administrator privelages.
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make sure you are logged in with an account that has administrator privelages.
It all seems to be leading back to that ;)
Thanks again all.