hate networking and can't set it up - help!

neologan · 15 Oct 2008 at 15:58

just bought a linksys WRT54GL cable router and have managed to set up the net to work on both my laptop (wireless) and main PC (wired) and put tomato on it.

My problem is i have no idea how to get these two machines to see each others drives. The laptop is on Vista 32, the PC is on XP.

Can anyone run me through what to do so i can get the damn things to share files, etc?

Thanks!

neologan · 15 Oct 2008 at 21:36

can anyone help here, i'm going nuts trying to figure out what it is i'm not doing right here.

neologan · 15 Oct 2008 at 21:44

i think i need a walk through of some sorts to see if i've missed something really

if i look under Network in vista, all i see is my router.

neologan · 15 Oct 2008 at 22:07

tried accessing the machines through start / run, i get this error:

neologan · 15 Oct 2008 at 22:29

i've now set passwords for the accounts, its half working - i can see my laptop from the pc now, but not the other way round.

Maybe it's just me, but why is this so damn fiddly to do...

neologan · 15 Oct 2008 at 22:42

pings worked fine both ways, i do get an error message for what you asked:

error code 0x800704b3, but it sems to be pretty generic.

neologan · 16 Oct 2008 at 14:08

i don't have a clue what .109 is, how would i check?

*EDIT* hmmmm that one seems to have disappeared when i turned the router off and back on.

neologan · 16 Oct 2008 at 15:23

tried what you have suggested. The shared folder from the laptop shows for the XP machine (PC), but still can't get a folder from XP (PC) to show on Vista (Laptop).

I've setup file sharing for a drive on each machine, so i don't think there is a problem there.

This is really starting to get on my nerves now grrrr.

neologan · 16 Oct 2008 at 16:38

*SOLVED*

Turns out it was all my own damn fault. I used the Vista tweak guide on my laptop from notebookreview and disabled the service "Workstation", which is a tweak to help start up times in vista (its tweak 4 in the guide), but it disables some functionality in network environments. Now i've enabled it again all is fine. That will teach me to do these things at 2am in the morning!

Thanks for everyone that tried to help, it was really appreciated