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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 !!!!

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.

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?