I can't seem to connect to my laptop from any other computer in the house i am running Windows 7 home premium on my laptop my sisters laptop is running the same and the desktop that we are using as a router is running windows 7 ultamate my laptop is conected to the home group so i cant figure out why i can't access it and i have all shareing turned on
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Slightly confused by your configuration?
"i am running Windows 7 home premium on my laptop my sisters laptop is running the same and the desktop that we are using as a router is running windows 7 ultamate"
Are you saying the W7 computer is doing ICS, Internet Connection Sharing? That machine connects to the internet and you use its internet connection?
When you open a COMMAND PROMPT in both your laptop and your sisters computer and run IPCONFIG /ALL, that do you see for these values :
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Ethernet adapter Network Bridge:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : MAC Bridge Miniport
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 02-23-AE-E6-D1-EF
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::cd60:dda3:c837:6b7e%13(Preferred)
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.2(Preferred)
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
DHCPv6 IAID . . . . . . . . . . . : 654966823
DHCPv6 Client DUID. . . . . . . . : 00-01-00-01-13-7B-EE-74-00-23-AE-E6-D1-EF
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 8.8.8.8
8.8.4.4
NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled
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My values are listed but the important ones are the IPv4 address and Gateway.
Sharing is what you are sharing. Others must have SHARING enabled for you to see anything. However, a NET VIEW from the command line should show other machines on the network, like :
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c:\>net view
Server Name Remark
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\\IRV-XPS435 Irv's XPS 435T
\\LARAINE-XPS8500
\\RT-N56U RT-N56U
The command completed successfully.
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When you run the command, what do you see?
Irv S.
Eddiebug1, adding to ispalten's post..
If I'm not mistaken you must also enable sharing in folders and/or sub-folders themselves.
For example, once I enable Public Folder Sharing and enable sharing to "MySharedFolder" it should look something like this;
Now to access that folder from another PC (on the same) network I go Windows Key + R (to get the run window) and in this case I'll have to type:
\\GAUSSIST\MySharedFolder (enter)
Note: "GAUSSIST"- is the PC name and "MySharedFolder"- is the name of the folder.
If you had replied back with the info I asked for it would have helped determine where the problem lies.... but now it appears to be a permissions problem on the other computers. That data I asked for would still help here to make sure it is that.
Provide a link for that Virtual Router please.
Irv S.
