OK, thanks for recent help getting my fledgeling network up and running.

I now have a Belkin wireless modem/router hooked up, a wireless network
adapter in the laptop, and an ethernet card hard-wired to the router in my
desktop. And they're communicating.

Next problem though is that I can only access what I've set as shared
folders in one direction. Each computer has a folder called Forcopy, which I
have set to allow sharing. Each computer has file and folder sharing
enabled.

Using windows explorer, on the desktop if I open the folder for the
workgroup I've set, I can see the Forcopy folders for both computers, and I
can copy to and from the laptop.

However, on the laptop, looking in the same folder, I can see it's own
Forcopy folder with a + sign to the left for subfolders, and an icon
(without the + sign labelled with the computer name for the desktop. If I
click on that I'm prompted for a username and password.

Another (possibly linked) anomaly is that when I was looking at the process
of sharing/not sharing, I looked at the sharing setting for the whole C:
drive - it shows "share this folder" enabled, with a share name of C$. I
tried changing this to stop the whole drive from being shared, but got the
following message - "This share was created for administrative purposes
only. The share will reappear when the server service is stopped and
restarted or the computer rebooted" - having no idea what all this meant I
decided to cancel and leave it as it was.

Can anyone point me into how to access the desktop from the laptop please -
clues, solutions, all ideas welcome

Many thanks.

Login with an account from the desktop !
desktopname\username
and password.

Rgds


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On Sun, 3 Oct 2004 15:01:03 +0100, "Me" <Me@graceland.co.uk> wrote:

This sounds like you are logging on to the desktop machine with a
username and password, but not doing so on the laptop.

You could try putting in the username and password that you use when
you start the desktop machine.

Which OS are you using on the two machines? I know there used to be an
option for whether to allow particular users to share your files, or
whether to require a password, but that option does not seem to be
present in XP Home.

Desktop has win XP Pro SP2, latop has XP Home SP1.

Desktop doesn't use a password to log on, and sharing for the relevant
folder doesn't have a password sent.

I've spoken to the person who set the computer up in the first place with
the original Win 2000 installation, and he thinks the only solution is to
format and reinstall XP from scratch, to get rid of hangovers from 2000.

So unless there are any other ideas, see you in a few weeks!!!

In message <1096904371.88309.0@dyke.uk.clara.net>, Me
<Me@graceland.co.uk> writes
logged on as.

Presuming that user has admin. facilities you should be able to set a
password for the account. It may still automatically log you on - I
don't know XP, in W2k the username and password for auto-logon are
registry entries.

If you then use that username and password when prompted by the laptop
that should work.

A better idea is to setup the laptop to auto-logon with the same
username and password as the desktop - it probably won't then prompt you
for the details.

Hope this helps.

Regards
--
Peter R Cook

"Peter R Cook" <PCook@wisty.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:YJEl0kBGZZYBFwNt@wisty.plus.com...
permissions etc.
remember win 2000 would only allow access to a user name and password it had
as a user. So ensure thatthe laptop username and password are a user on the
win xp box, or get in there and change the permissions.
Colin