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StuntMonkeh · 20 May 2007 at 10:10

I am at that point where you get so frustrated that you want to just throw the monitor out of the window!

I have two PC's connected to a Netgear ADSL Modem/Switch/Router. It has assigned the two PC's an IP address, I have set both the workgroups to the same name but for some reason only one PC lists both PC's on the network.

All I want to do is map a bloody drive FFS !!!!

UKDTweak · 20 May 2007 at 10:19

Have you disabled the firewall on both machines, thats the first step to diagnose the problem, secondly, can you ping each machine from the other ?

Deleted member 651465 · 20 May 2007 at 11:10

Get a Mac?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU9EflLJuf8

csmager · 20 May 2007 at 11:41

If one PC shows both, it might be working.

Type \\computername - 'network neighborhood' is notoriously unreliable.

smids · 20 May 2007 at 11:50

csmager said:
If one PC shows both, it might be working.

Type \\computername - 'network neighborhood' is notoriously unreliable.

Gotta agree.

I cannot believe in this day and age it is still so difficult to properly network via ethernet (well, it can be done fairly easily if you know what you are doing, but still). Network Neighbourhood is shocking sometimes...

StuntMonkeh · 20 May 2007 at 18:14

After a great deal of messing around it just kinda appeared... no idea how or why it decided to work eventually!

StuntMonkeh · 20 May 2007 at 19:05

Cancel that, its stopped working again!

Firewall off and I can ping one machine to the other no problem. Also tried typing in the computer name as suggested too but no luck.

csmager · 20 May 2007 at 19:08

about about \\<IP address> ?

Sounds like it might be some name resolution issue.

StuntMonkeh · 20 May 2007 at 19:19

csmager said:
about about \\<IP address> ?

Sounds like it might be some name resolution issue.

Well done... that worked so I can actually access the shared folders etc but how do I fix the name resolution problem? Do I need to change the name of the computer?

BigBoy · 20 May 2007 at 20:45

in the dns settings of the router you should be able to set internal dns addresses host names and ip's.

Jimmy1983 · 20 May 2007 at 21:02

csmager said:
about about \\<IP address> ?

Sounds like it might be some name resolution issue.

can you expand on that abit please? :confused:

BigBoy · 20 May 2007 at 21:48

DNS resolution problem is what he means

csmager · 20 May 2007 at 21:50

DNS resolution isn't used for internal networking on a peer-to-peer infrastructure. It uses PNRP (Peer-to-peer Name Resolution Protocol).

No idea why it might've bust though. Check firewalls have been disabled and maybe reboot both.

Jimmy1983 · 20 May 2007 at 21:59

csmager said:
DNS resolution isn't used for internal networking on a peer-to-peer infrastructure. It uses PNRP (Peer-to-peer Name Resolution Protocol).

No idea why it might've bust though. Check firewalls have been disabled and maybe reboot both.

Iam having a similar problem to StuntMonkeh so I thought I would ask.

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