Trying to set up a network at home and I am having a few problems with my desktop computer.
I have a desktop computer connected with a hard wire to the wireless router (linksys wireless router) and a wireless laptop using wireless connection. The Internet on both work fine.
The problem is with setting up the network between the two computers to share files. I read a bunch of help web pages to try to set up the connection but now ran into a couple problems.
1. Using the /run cmd and ping command to test my local (desktop) computer it times out. My laptop gets a 100% good ping on itself. They cannot ping each other, times out.
2. I checked under devices at my network adapter. I have NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller which is what I got with my Asus A8N-SLI board.
It is enabled and the drivers are up to date.
3. My computers are named and I ran the network set up on both. They both have the same workgroup name. But on my laptop, the desktop does not show up. On the desktop the workgroup does not even show up. If I click the "view workgroup computers" option on the right, it gives me this message: "MsHome is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions. The list of servers for this workgroup is not currently available." Do not know about that, I am the admin for my computers.
This is what the Microsoft web support page told me to do. Then if I have a problem it kind of just says my network adapter might be installed incorrectly and leaves it at that.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
I have a desktop computer connected with a hard wire to the wireless router (linksys wireless router) and a wireless laptop using wireless connection. The Internet on both work fine.
The problem is with setting up the network between the two computers to share files. I read a bunch of help web pages to try to set up the connection but now ran into a couple problems.
1. Using the /run cmd and ping command to test my local (desktop) computer it times out. My laptop gets a 100% good ping on itself. They cannot ping each other, times out.
2. I checked under devices at my network adapter. I have NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller which is what I got with my Asus A8N-SLI board.
It is enabled and the drivers are up to date.
3. My computers are named and I ran the network set up on both. They both have the same workgroup name. But on my laptop, the desktop does not show up. On the desktop the workgroup does not even show up. If I click the "view workgroup computers" option on the right, it gives me this message: "MsHome is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions. The list of servers for this workgroup is not currently available." Do not know about that, I am the admin for my computers.
This is what the Microsoft web support page told me to do. Then if I have a problem it kind of just says my network adapter might be installed incorrectly and leaves it at that.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks