Need Help with D-link DI-524 and Setting up File Sharing

I just bought this on the weekend and am using the DI-524 on a Windows
98se computer. The wireless USB adaptor is on my newer Win XP
computer. I had it set up and sharing the Internet in about 10
minutes. I cannot however share files from one computer to another
wirelessly with this setup (or is it even possible)? I am new to this
networking stuff and would like to know what this wireless router is
capable of. Do I have to use an ethernet cable connected from the
router to my XP computer to share files? I mainly bought the DI-524 to
share files from one computer to another (wirelessly) but have come up
empty after several hours of exhaustive research even checking out the
D-link website. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
in advance.

"Harry King" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I just bought this on the weekend and am using the DI-524 on a Windows
> 98se computer. The wireless USB adaptor is on my newer Win XP
> computer. I had it set up and sharing the Internet in about 10
> minutes. I cannot however share files from one computer to another
> wirelessly with this setup (or is it even possible)? I am new to this
> networking stuff and would like to know what this wireless router is
> capable of. Do I have to use an ethernet cable connected from the
> router to my XP computer to share files? I mainly bought the DI-524 to
> share files from one computer to another (wirelessly) but have come up
> empty after several hours of exhaustive research even checking out the
> D-link website. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
> in advance.

To risk stating the obvious, do you have File and Printer Sharing enabled?

Hi Joseph

I enabled file and print sharing, on the host computer I chose a
folder to share and I got the little icon of the "hand" on the shared
folder. I cannot see the shared folder on the client computer. I
checked "my network neighborhood" and it is empty. It acts like the
network doesn't exist. I also tried running the "network setup
wizard" on the XP computer but it attempts to create a floppy disk and
I don't have a floppy drive on my new computer so that's about as far
as I get. The documentation with the router does not really address
file sharing so I'm stuck...




On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 06:15:05 -0500, "Joseph Stewart"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>"Harry King" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>news:(E-Mail Removed).. .
>>I just bought this on the weekend and am using the DI-524 on a Windows
>> 98se computer. The wireless USB adaptor is on my newer Win XP
>> computer. I had it set up and sharing the Internet in about 10
>> minutes. I cannot however share files from one computer to another
>> wirelessly with this setup (or is it even possible)? I am new to this
>> networking stuff and would like to know what this wireless router is
>> capable of. Do I have to use an ethernet cable connected from the
>> router to my XP computer to share files? I mainly bought the DI-524 to
>> share files from one computer to another (wirelessly) but have come up
>> empty after several hours of exhaustive research even checking out the
>> D-link website. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
>> in advance.
>
>To risk stating the obvious, do you have File and Printer Sharing enabled?
>
>

> folder. I cannot see the shared folder on the client computer. I
> checked "my network neighborhood" and it is empty. It acts like the

ignore network neighbourhood, what happens if you just enter the path to
the other machine as:-

\\computer\share

Thanks for the suggestion David, I've tried that also and got a
message that said the folder could not be found.


On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 13:35:01 GMT, David Taylor <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>> folder. I cannot see the shared folder on the client computer. I
>> checked "my network neighborhood" and it is empty. It acts like the
>
>ignore network neighbourhood, what happens if you just enter the path to
>the other machine as:-
>
>\\computer\share

Firewall?


"Harry King" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Thanks for the suggestion David, I've tried that also and got a
> message that said the folder could not be found.
>
>
> On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 13:35:01 GMT, David Taylor <(E-Mail Removed)>
> wrote:
>
>>> folder. I cannot see the shared folder on the client computer. I
>>> checked "my network neighborhood" and it is empty. It acts like the
>>
>>ignore network neighbourhood, what happens if you just enter the path to
>>the other machine as:-
>>
>>\\computer\share

I have Zone Alarm on my host computer and I have Norton Internet
security on the client. Is it possible that one of them is causing the
problem? As I stated earlier the Internet connection is being shared
by both computers.


On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 12:06:32 -0500, "Joseph Stewart"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Firewall?
>
>
>"Harry King" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>news:(E-Mail Removed).. .
>> Thanks for the suggestion David, I've tried that also and got a
>> message that said the folder could not be found.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 13:35:01 GMT, David Taylor <(E-Mail Removed)>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>> folder. I cannot see the shared folder on the client computer. I
>>>> checked "my network neighborhood" and it is empty. It acts like the
>>>
>>>ignore network neighbourhood, what happens if you just enter the path to
>>>the other machine as:-
>>>
>>>\\computer\share
>

> Thanks for the suggestion David, I've tried that also and got a
> message that said the folder could not be found.

So next also try browsing \\computer to see if you get a list of shares.

(also check firewall is off for the testing)

David.

Thanks for the info, I'll give it a try this afternoon and post my
results later today.

On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 17:35:37 GMT, David Taylor <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>> Thanks for the suggestion David, I've tried that also and got a
>> message that said the folder could not be found.
>
>So next also try browsing \\computer to see if you get a list of shares.
>
>(also check firewall is off for the testing)
>
>David.

On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 17:35:37 GMT, David Taylor <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:


>So next also try browsing \\computer to see if you get a list of shares.

Could you please tell me how to browse the computer for the share
list? I've never tried this before. Thanks in advance.


>(also check firewall is off for the testing)
>
>David.