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[ROOFIEMTL]

Thank god I found this forum.

Ok well just got my son a starter pc to free up ours. we have on printer in our house and would like to set up a network with printer and file sharing. I have gone through the setup network tools but cannot see his or mine. I am new to the whole networking thing and this is over my head. I desperately need some serious guru to help out on this. Someone to walk me through step by step please. Here is the setup as of now. Thanks.

Computer A= XP PRO SP2
Computer B= VISTA BASIC
Linksys Rter= WRT54G

Ok both PC's are wired into the router in ports 2 and 3 I have the worgroups both set to MSHOME. Both computers have names that are different. I have enabled printer sharing and file sharing on both as well. I have downloaded the protocol Link-Layer Topology Discovery Responder for Computer A and enabled it within the properties of the NIC. On computer B I requested a map of the network. It told me that it could not produce a map for this type of network. So this brings me to you . I will need step by step . Otherwise may get lost in translation. thank you. Hope this is possible.:confused:

[meorah]

Can both computers access the internet through the router?

Restart both computers and try to print a map again.

If that doesn't work, turn off all firewalls and security programs (this means you need to know what security programs you are running), mega-super antivirus products like norton internet security are not just anti-virus. They also include their own firewalls. Disable them all, reboot again, and see if you can print a network map.

If that doesn't work, start focusing more on the adapters (TCP/IP level) and get back to the NETBIOS computer sharing later. Try to ping the IP addresses of both computers from each other. Open a command prompt and type "ipconfig" to display the IP address and subnet mask for each system. From the same command prompt, type "ping 192.168.0.1" or whatever the other computer IP address is. Do this from both computers to make sure it works in both directions (firewall related issue if it doesn't work both ways).

Make sure you have both computers on the same IP network. Putting both computers in MSHOME workgroup only groups them for printer/file sharing purposes, and depends on them being on the same IP network. You can't have one computer set to 10.0.2.x with 255.255.255.0 subnet mask and the other set to 192.168.5.x with 255.255.255.0 network. They're on 2 separate networks like that. If they are on different IP networks, put them on the same IP network, and - assuming 255.255.255.0 subnet - change only the final octet on each computer (represented by the x's in the above example).

Let me know if that info helps you out or what experience you have going through the options.

[ROOFIEMTL]

Ok well thank you meorah for your response to my problem. I have actually got them to see each other and all is good. I found a tutorial on another forum site that really is a good tutorial