Ping: Yes, share files, no?

Sounds like your tech has disabled file&printer sharing
on your laptop and possibly installed a firewall...
Can you ask him what he messed up?
>-----Original Message-----
>I have a wireless router, my desktop is plugged straight
into it, and my
>laptop has the wireless card. Before I went wireless, I
had networked them
>using a firewire and had created a firewire network that
worked fine. When
>I went wireless, I found that all of those networking
settings worked fine
>over the wireless, I didn't have to change anything.
>
>But.
>
>When I was attending grad-school, the tech took our
laptops so we could
>access the school's massively encrypted wireless
internet. When I got home,
>blamo, I could no longer share files.
>
>I can ping each computer with the other.
>The laptop actually sees the desktop in the workgroup,
but you can't expand
>it and see the shared folders.
>The desktop can't see the laptop in the workgroup, but
can ping it.
>The desktop of course lists all of its shared folders.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Thanks!
>
>JR
>
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