Please help I'm a newbie

we've got a emachine wireless lappy (a month old) and packard bell pc (2 wks
old) with a netgear wireless card plugged in it all running on XP home.
We've got them connected and the signal is good, but we can't get them to
share files or the net no matter what we do.

My husband is pulling out what's left of his hair.
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Have you enabled file sharing??

"Richard Haygreen" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Have you enabled file sharing??
>
>

yes love on both machines.

We get this window up ....
*Map Network Drive
windows can help you connect to a shared network folder and assign a drive
letter to the connection so that you can access the folder using My
Computer.
Specify the drive letter for the connection and the folder you want to
connect to....... *


trouble is the drive letters are every letter from the alphabet ...but C & D

-:¦:-Maz-:¦:- wrote:
> "Richard Haygreen" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Have you enabled file sharing??
>>
>>
>
> yes love on both machines.
>
> We get this window up ....
> *Map Network Drive
> windows can help you connect to a shared network folder and assign a
> drive letter to the connection so that you can access the folder
> using My Computer.
> Specify the drive letter for the connection and the folder you want to
> connect to....... *
>
>
> trouble is the drive letters are every letter from the alphabet
> ...but C & D

Have you run the Network Connection Wizard ?

If so what does it say ?

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Alan

"Alan Walker" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:2qUPb.8612$(E-Mail Removed)...
> -:¦:-Maz-:¦:- wrote:
> > "Richard Haygreen" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> > news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> >> Have you enabled file sharing??
> >>
> >>
> >
> > yes love on both machines.
> >
> > We get this window up ....
> > *Map Network Drive
> > windows can help you connect to a shared network folder and assign a
> > drive letter to the connection so that you can access the folder
> > using My Computer.
> > Specify the drive letter for the connection and the folder you want to
> > connect to....... *
> >
> >
> > trouble is the drive letters are every letter from the alphabet
> > ...but C & D
>
> Have you run the Network Connection Wizard ?
>
> If so what does it say ?
>
> --
>
> Alan
>
>
>

yes it's been run and it's fine...

both machines are running a connection ... but I can't seem to get files to
share.

all files needed are clicked to share.. but they don't.

-:¦:-Maz-:¦:- wrote:

> trouble is the drive letters are every letter from the alphabet ...but C & D

You can't use C and D as they are already in use. Just choose the next
one, so you have drives C, D and F. The F drive will then appear in
Exploder.

What version of Windows are on the machines? Setting MS networkup up is
different between 9x, 2K and XP.

In message <bup22d$nr8$(E-Mail Removed)>, "-:¦:-Maz-:¦:-"
<(E-Mail Removed)> writes
>
>"Richard Haygreen" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Have you enabled file sharing??
>>
>>
>
>yes love on both machines.
>
>We get this window up ....
>*Map Network Drive
>windows can help you connect to a shared network folder and assign a drive
>letter to the connection so that you can access the folder using My
>Computer.
>Specify the drive letter for the connection and the folder you want to
>connect to....... *
>
>
>trouble is the drive letters are every letter from the alphabet ...but C & D

That's right. When you set up a new drive mapping you need to select a
drive letter that isn't already being used. So pick something like S for
shared drive. Your machine will then have drive A: for the floppy, drive
c: for the hard disk, drive D: for the CD or DVD drive and drive S: for
the network.

It's generally not a good idea to use the next available drive letter
(which would be E: ) because that will be used if you add another
physical drive, such as a CD writer.



--
Bernard Peek
London, UK. DBA, Manager, Trainer & Author. Will work for money.

In article <bup22d$nr8$(E-Mail Removed)>, "-:¦:-Maz-:¦:-"
(E-Mail Removed) says...
>
> "Richard Haygreen" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Have you enabled file sharing??
> >
> >
>
> yes love on both machines.
>
> We get this window up ....
> *Map Network Drive
> windows can help you connect to a shared network folder and assign a drive
> letter to the connection so that you can access the folder using My
> Computer.
> Specify the drive letter for the connection and the folder you want to
> connect to....... *
>
>
> trouble is the drive letters are every letter from the alphabet ...but C & D
>
>
The Map a Network Drive feature is to make a folder on the _other_
machine appear to be local. You can also access them by typing
\\machine-name\share-name in the Explorer address bar, or by browsing
from My Network Places. Does either of these work?
Are the machines talking to each other at all? Try pinging to see if
TCP/IP is working okay.