Ok, i need a complete and utter newbs guide to getting this to work. I've been through every damn windows help file and still nothing happens.

I've started out trying to get Pev's comp (the one with the printer) to have a shared folder on the network, which i can access. No luck. Everytime i get close, it tells me that Her computer could not be found on the network.

So I wanna start from scratch. Where's the best place to go?

So you want to share a printer or a folder?

Simple question.

Are both computers in the same workgroup?

yep. Same work group. Same subnet. After that it starts getting dirty with configuration.

Maybe next time you'll pay attention in class, Pokemon!

we both ran the windows xp network set up thingy. both on workgroup MSHOME. both can 'see' the other computer but if we try to access them 'that computer cannot be accessed'. Don't really care about sharing files, dont have any we need to share, but printer will be useful coz mole doesn't have one

Just click on start, control panel, printers and fax, right click on your printer, select sharing, set a share name.

Then on the computer that doesnt have a printer. Go to start, control panel, printers and fax, then add a new printer, then select "connect to this printer" then type in the network path like \\computer2\printer1. And your all set. Or you just double click the other computer in Network neighborhood and then double click the shared printer.

Share the printer first before trying to access the other computer.

Make sure you turn off that BS windows firewall crap to.

We've done it. It doesn't work.

Well, check the administrator log, see what errors are in there.

Are both computers useing DHCP? Are they static IP's? Same subnet ?

This isnt that hard to do.

Also, check the properties of your network adapter, make sure "File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Netoworks" is in there.

file n printer sharing is there on mine, dunno about mole's. and its enabled. yes DHCP, dunno what it IS but i remember it from when we had router probs, static IP's also, same subnet as i already said. Where the hell is the admin log?

Start-->Control Panel -->Adminstrative Tools-->Event Viewer

holy christ superman, did Pevil just say they were using DHCP and static IPs? That's like an Islamic Christian eating Lent on Friday.

Anyway...you can't have a static and dynamic IP.

What are your IP addresses and subnet masks?

what the crap IS DHCP? All I know is you guys told us to have that enabled when we were having all that problem with the router, and I know that on the network, the IP's of our comps are 10.0.0.12 and 10.0.0.13. Think mine is 13, can't remember. And I have a feeling the subnet mask is 255.255.255.0 but can't remember and i'm too lazy right now to look it up