file and resource sharing in peer to peer set up

[loganswell]

I have had a look at questions posed by others but I can't see one that specifically related to my problem. I'll try to be succinct

Two PCs in one room. Main PC has XP Pro and other XP Home. Yesterday inserted NICs into both and connected them up. Have run Network connection wizard on both. The wizard got to the end on both apparently successfully. When I go to the XP Home machine's explorer and "my network places" it can see the name of the network "MSHOME" but if I click on that I get the following (after a wait):

MSHOME is not accessible. You might not have the permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions.

The network path was not found.

Can anyone help me? I've spent hours on this and I bet it's just something simple!

Best wishes

Jim Robin

 

[smah]

Follow the steps here exactly

http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/xp/filesharing.htm

 

[loganswell]

Thanks for that smah. I'd seen that site before. Actually the problem was more profound than file sharing, however I didn't know that at the time. I had wrongly assumed that the wizard did everything for you but that was not the case. I think in retrospect that the wizard just makes the two computers known to the network by assigning them both IP addresses. What was 'missing' for me (but I hadn't realised it at the time) was the installation of the network protocol software. This has now been done and the file sharing is now working satisfactorily. My latest problem is getting the Internet Connection Sharing to work and this (at the moment) is proving just as obstinate! I have been through the wizard a few times on both machines but the browser refuses to browse on the client when the server is connected via ADSL.

A ipconfig /all on the client shows only the ethernet lan and not the ISP's IP address (as can be seen on the server). So it's back to the drawing board! This is quite a learning process!

Thanks again and best wishes.

 

[bcastner]

What you see on the client is perfectly normal, it should not be showing the ISPs addresses.

See another site:

http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/xp_ics/

And/or,

http://www.windows-help.net/WindowsXP/howto-23.html