File Shareing NOT Enabled

Hello,

Another question. I enabled file sharing in my computer as
well as in the broadband utility on my laptop. However,
when I open the broadband utility it says file sharing not
enabled.

Also, I still haven't gotten a response to an earlier
question so I'll try again. In the broadband utility I see
no other computers on the network. (Laptop running ME and
desktop runniing XP Pro).

Help is appreciated,
Allen

If you're not seeing other computers on your LAN, one of two primary things
is probably happening: (1) You're running a software firewall on those
computers and it hasn't been configured to allow LAN traffic, or (2) Each
machine is not part of the same Workgroup.
--
Chris H.
Microsoft Windows MVP
Associate Expert
Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone

<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:30cd01c3e275$bcb2c7b0$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hello,
>
> Another question. I enabled file sharing in my computer as
> well as in the broadband utility on my laptop. However,
> when I open the broadband utility it says file sharing not
> enabled.
>
> Also, I still haven't gotten a response to an earlier
> question so I'll try again. In the broadband utility I see
> no other computers on the network. (Laptop running ME and
> desktop runniing XP Pro).
>
> Help is appreciated,
> Allen

Not quite sure why, but the Wireless Networking Utility shows File and Print
Sharing not Enabled unless you actually have a share on a folder (or perhaps
a printer) on the computer running the Utility.

Try adding a Share on a folder and see if this changes.

--
Bruce Sanderson MVP

It's perfectly useless to know the right answer to the wrong question.


<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:30cd01c3e275$bcb2c7b0$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hello,
>
> Another question. I enabled file sharing in my computer as
> well as in the broadband utility on my laptop. However,
> when I open the broadband utility it says file sharing not
> enabled.
>
> Also, I still haven't gotten a response to an earlier
> question so I'll try again. In the broadband utility I see
> no other computers on the network. (Laptop running ME and
> desktop runniing XP Pro).
>
> Help is appreciated,
> Allen