Home Network Problems

Dublinstiofán

Got a laptop a few weeks ago and want to transfer my files from my pc at home to it. I thought the handiest way to do this was by setting up a home network. I did this this morning but it wont seem to transfer any files. This is prob because i dont have a clue what im doing tho.

I went through the steps in the network connection wizard and i seem to have somethin connected when the network cable between the laptop and cpu are connected but still cant send files. The connection status in connected and im actually on the internet on the laptop typing this message so the net is working throught the network cable.
Anybody have any ideas on what i did wrong? or any better ideas on how to connect the laptop to the pc without having to start burning files to CD's and all that.

One more thing i noticed is that on the pc the network is coming up as a network bridge is this part of the problem? On the pc it appears to be called local area connection and my name.
Any help would be greatly appreciated,
thanks

srdb20

Make sure you have File and printer sharing on both machines, also client for microsoft networks...

And if needed switch of your firewall, to allow access through...


You could also try setting up a workgroup between the 2 machines!!!

dwaned

Try this, it worked for me.

http://www.homenethelp.com/web/howto/net-name-xp.asp#winxp

srdb20

Try this, it worked for me.

http://www.homenethelp.com/web/howto...e-xp.asp#winxp

Thats what i said, ye man seriously though you shouldnt have any problems with it!

dwaned

srdb20 wrote:

Thats what i said, ye man seriously though you shouldnt have any problems with it!

Yeah but the step by step instructions on that site make it a little easier to follow.....