janesman2006

Thanks for trying, but nothing so far has helped. I keep getting a dialogue box saying either I don't have permission, which I know I do, or that it cannot find the other computer. PC 1 is named claysamd10 and the other is claysamd18, with the workgroup named "home" for both. If I remember right, the last time I attempted this was to connect both computers using a crossover cable. I didn't have a router at that time, I was hooking up xp pro and xp home and it worked fine. When I installed the wireless network card and router, I couldn't get windows to allow me to connect to the other pc at all. Thats when I found the program network magic that did it all for me. Could it be my router blocking this, if it is do you know how to configure the router to work. I am currently going to dlink to look for a forum for this. Thanks for trying.

I have a dlink di524 router with 2 pc's hooked up. Both running xp pro, 1 is wireless and the other wired. Both have internet but I cant' share any files, printer and file sharing is on, I even used MS's "setup home or small office network" on both pc's but I still can't share the files. I would like to dump all of my files off of the wireless pc to do a reinstall as I have'nt done that in a while and I figure the registry is all hacked up. My OS is currently on a 20g pata hdd but I will put it on the 120g sata drive when I reinstall. I don't really want to transfer all the stuff to my sata drive then put it in the other pc and then transfer those files again to the other drive, but I could if I had to. I would rather do it thru the lan. I had a program called network magic that worked good untill the trial period expired. Any other programs out there like this, freeware preferably.