Hi,
Well, I gave up on the printer sharing (and just went out and bought
an inexpensive second printer) and am about to give up on the folder
sharing because it's not working now. All folders I have set to
share have content in them on the desktop but when I go to open the
folders on the laptop, they're empty.
Here is what I'm doing:
On the desktop I'm doing the "share" thing in Windows Explorer for
the folder I want to share and the icon is changing to from the
non-shared icon to the shared icon.
On the laptop I'm doing the same thing to the same folder as I did
above, so I have a folder on each computer w/the same name and
showing as shared in Windows Explorer.
I add a Network Place to the laptop for the folder. (I tried this
both with and without adding the same Network Place on the desktop
and it's not working either way).
I reboot both machines.
When they come back up I go to Network Places on the laptop and the
folders are empty. The folders on the desktop have the files in
them. I check in Windows Explorer, the files do not show up there on
the laptop either.
This really doesn't make sense because I had one folder shared
yesterday and the files/folders were in them on both computers -
today it's not working. I recall taking the above steps and it
worked yesterday for that one single folder once I figured out what I
was doing wrong. I deleted that folder as it was a test folder
only. I just now set it up again and it works - the files w/in it
are there now just like they were yesterday and i didn't even have to
reboot to be able to see them (probably a cache type thing I'm guessing).
I set the folder on the desktop in Windows Explorer to be shared. I
went to the laptop, set the folder in Windows Explorer to be shared -
same steps I outlined above. Added it to Network Places on the
laptop - worked perfectly. I did not need to add this to Network
Places on the desktop, only the laptop.
I also tried just copying one single file over to the default Shared
Documents on the desktop and even that doesn't show up on the laptop
but does on the desktop. It would have been quicker to copy my
~entire desktop contents~ over to multiple cd's and then copy them
over to the laptop one cd at a time than the time it's taken me to
NOT make this work for just a few folders! Where anyone gets
"simple" out of this process is beyond my comprehension.
Question: XP adds "on laptop" to any folder I set up in Network
Places. So it's "Games on laptop" showing in Network Places. Do I
need to keep the "on laptop" portion of the name?
Thank you so much!
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