Computers unable to access each others files.

From: Orry (Orry_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/26/05 

Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 12:05:01 -0800

Today I setup a wireless home network by connecting the main PC in the lounge
to a wireless router and connecting the spare PC to a USB wireless network
adapter. Both the computers connected to the network and now share the
internet connection plugged into the router. On the main lounge PC I ran the
'Setup Home and Office Network' Wizard and setup a workgroup called
'HOMENETWORK' with file and printer sharing enabled. I ran the same wizard on
the spare PC and used the same workgroup name. The main PC now shows the
Shared Documents folders for both itself and the spare PC on My Network
Places. The spare PC will only show it's own Shared Documents folder in My
Network Places and not the folder from the main PC. This is a problem as I
want to be able to print from the spare PC using the printer on the main PC.

Both the computers are running Windows XP Professional with SP2.

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