ME and XP "sharing" wirelessly. PLEASE HELP!

I have just set up a wireless network with a desktop ME
machine and a laptop XP. Both are connected to the
Internet through a router and PC cards. The ME machine
sees the XP and I can access files from the XP on it. The
XP sees files from the ME but there's no icon for the
machine itself in "view workgroup computers". When I click
on those files I get the error message "no network path".
The "shared" printer only works with whichever computer is
cabled to it. I'm going nuts here!!! Any advice would be
deeply appreciated.


russon

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"russon" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:a6a001c498ba$d03352e0$(E-Mail Removed)...
>I have just set up a wireless network with a desktop ME
> machine and a laptop XP. Both are connected to the
> Internet through a router and PC cards. The ME machine
> sees the XP and I can access files from the XP on it. The
> XP sees files from the ME but there's no icon for the
> machine itself in "view workgroup computers". When I click
> on those files I get the error message "no network path".
> The "shared" printer only works with whichever computer is
> cabled to it. I'm going nuts here!!! Any advice would be
> deeply appreciated.

In article <a6a001c498ba$d03352e0$(E-Mail Removed)>, "russon"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>I have just set up a wireless network with a desktop ME
>machine and a laptop XP. Both are connected to the
>Internet through a router and PC cards. The ME machine
>sees the XP and I can access files from the XP on it. The
>XP sees files from the ME but there's no icon for the
>machine itself in "view workgroup computers". When I click
>on those files I get the error message "no network path".
>The "shared" printer only works with whichever computer is
>cabled to it. I'm going nuts here!!! Any advice would be
>deeply appreciated.

The shortcuts to shared folders in XP's My Network Places sometimes
seem to "go bad". Right-click and delete them. Then, click "Add a
network place" and re-create them.

If "Add a network place" doesn't work, open a command prompt window on
XP and enter these commands:

ping <ME computer's IP address>
ping <ME computer's name>

If the first ping succeeds and the second one fails, there's a problem
with NetBIOS name resolution. In that case:

1. Make sure that NetBIOS over TCP/IP is enabled on both computers.
Details here:

Enable NetBIOS Over TCP/IP (NetBT)
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/...hoot/netbt.htm

2. Run "ipconfig /all" on XP and look at the "Node Type" at the
beginning of the output. If it says "Peer-to-Peer" (which should
actually be "Point-to-Point") that's the problem. It means that the
computer only uses a WINS server, which isn't available on a
peer-to-peer network, for NetBIOS name resolution.

If that's the case, run the registry editor, open this key:

HLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Netbt\Parame ters

and delete these values if they're present:

NodeType
DhcpNodeType

Reboot, then try network access again.

If that doesn't fix it, open that registry key again, create a DWORD
value called "NodeType", and set it to 1 for "Broadcast" or 4 for
"Mixed".

For details, see these Microsoft Knowledge Base articles:

Default Node Type for Microsoft Clients
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;160177

TCP/IP and NBT Configuration Parameters for Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;314053
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