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From: "Jim Dykes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 8:50
When I opened the message, I found that Slattery, Tim - BLS had written:
Essentially, that's what you're doing. Each computer on your home
network is assigned an IP address by the DHCP server in your router.
It's an address that can't be routed on the public internet, but your
router will know what to do with it. When one of your machines sends a
message to another, it uses that machine's IP address, and your router
sends the packets to the correct machine. This is the *exact same*
process that packets on the public internet go through.
So the very first step in establishing your home net, is for each
computer in it to be assigned an IP address when it connects.
Ah so!!
Someone thought that Network Magic 3.0 had a problem (or at least for
him) and had reverted to 2.1 which, he said, worked flawlessly.
Network Magic aside, though, I'm still confused about some things I have
been told.
Mainly that the root drive cannot be shared.
As long as I have had a network set up, I have been able to view, use and
change everything on the root drive of a networked computer.
Currently, I have Network Magic un-installed and am using Windows.
From DAD I can see and access EVERYTHING on MOMs computer.
The root drive is visible and usable just as shared documents is.
Same thing from LAPTOP.
Basically, my only problem is this:
LAPTOP cannot be accessed by either of the other two computers.
So, then, Tim, I will check into the DHCP assignment you mentioned (as
soon as I figure how <smile>. Maybe that is the culprit!!
If the Laptop can access the internet then it is getting an IP from your
router. At any rate to verify go to a command line and type: ipconfig /all
You will see your network card information with the IP assigned, DNS and
gateway info. The latter two should be your router's IP. Also, while there
try pinging the other computers (assuming DAD and MOM are the actual
computer names):
ping DAD
ping MOM
You can try the same thing from DAD and MOM and try pinging LAPTOP. That way
you'll verify that they are able to communicate, which they should since you
sometimes see LAPTOP in your Network Places window.
Finally, and this would have been the first thing I'd check, is do you have
printer and file sharing enabled on the Laptop? I don't remember on XP Home
where this is setup but you only have a choice in Home between simple file
sharing or not.
Regards,
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Rick Cogan from Melbourne, FL
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