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Easykill78
10-31-2005, 11:07 AM
Hi

I recently had to return my netgear wireless max network. It kept failing on me misserablly (router lock ups constantly) and opted for a D-Link DI624+ , a DWL-G520 for the home computer and a DWL-G650 for the laptop. I am only operating in G Mode (that is no speed boosting or extended range nothing just basic 54mbs g network) with WAP enabled.

now both can connect to the Router easily enough ( home pc is 20 feet away and the laptop is 20 feet away too) and they can access the internet easily too at the same time with no troubles. both laptops use XP PRO sp2 and windows firewall disabled. both have rip installed, Simple TCP/IP and Peer to peer. both have sharing enabled on the drives and also allow others to modifiy the files. there is no other firewall running on either pc. just xp and all system drivers. (fresh installs.. :) )

when i go to the networks section i can only see the pcs shares. when i do a cmd and ping the laptop. then the laptops shares appear, tho when i click on it it goes " You dont have permission to access these shairs" in orde for the laptop to see the home pc, my home pc needs to be pinged too from the laptop and access is totally restricted too. I have googled and searched and am frustrated as this never happened to me before. surely it cant be this hard to do file and printer sharing (printer connected to my home pc)

any help would be greatly appreciated.

Greenstead
10-31-2005, 08:39 PM
I'm surprised you get the problem with 2 XP SP2 PCs. I wonder what has caused the problem.

You don't need the XP firewall off with SP2, but you could leave it off until you get things working.

The error you get "You dont have permission..etc. The latter part of the error message, whatever it says, may provide a clue.

For now I would suggest you working thru the TCP sharing checklist in my sig.
Especially the NICs node type.

Easykill78
11-03-2005, 11:00 AM
thanks, i managed to get a laptop with an older ver of windoz being the master browser (98) however i get when i do browstat status and i get

Browsing is active on doman
Master browser name is : LAPPIE
Could not conncet to registry, error = 53
unable to determine build of browser master : 53

\\\\LAPPIE . Version:04.00 Flags 452003 WFW POTENTIAL MASTER
1 backup servers retrieved from master LAPPOE
\\LAPPIE

I have been searching the net on how to fix error 53, i did come accross it once a few days ago but i cant find the solution again ... :(

Someone help please