PureCRXtasy

If both computers are in the same workgroup and you have admin rights on both, you can access the drives on either computer using the default admin shares. Just type the computer name and the drive followed by a $. Ex. Computer name Computer1 to get to the C drive on computer1, type at the run prompt. Or open a CMD window and type and it will be available anytime that computer is on. You might be running into issues with the windows firewall as well. Sometimes it blocks file sharing. Turn it off, it's useless anyway. There are a few other things that might be getting in the way like simple file sharing or other software firewalls, etc. Try what I posted above and post back your results. Be specific and I can help you further.

jinxy

ha, you think he'd figure out ndiswrapper?

Jorsher

ugh ndiswrapper i dont want to hear that ----. Was such a pain in the *** getting my network card to work with ubuntu, wasnt as easy as just throwing a driver at ndiswrapper.

You dont have to do all that disk ----. All you need to do is make sure all computers are in the same workgroup, then restart them.

signorelli21

two things:

fastest way to add a machine to a network (using xp)is right click my computer, click computer name and lower right hand corner click the button that says network id, then just name it whatever and put in the name of your work group.

the reason you can't access the new machine is because you need to share out the hard drive or create a folder on the hard drive you would like to share and add it to the shared folders list, to do this double click my computer, right click the c drive or whatever drive you want to share and go to sharing and security, here you can call it whatever and set up permissions (like if its your **** drive and you don't want you mom looking at it you can password protect it) and then you should be able to access all the contents of that drive except for the critical system files for that machine from any asset on the network.

good luck noggington

bigdaddyvtec

if not domain machines... you need to have the worgroup names the same on all the machines... Also make sure you share out the root of the folder you want to access on the "pretend server". then map the drive.... make sure when sharing the folder(s) out you give the appropriate permissions...

signorelli21

he said he was able to join the work group and see it from anouther machine on that group, i am assuming he just needs to share out that machine.

A workgroup is best understood as a peer-to-peer network. That is, each computer is sustainable on its own. It has its own user list, it’s own access control and its own resources. In order for a user to access resources on another workgroup computer, that exact user must be setup on the other computer.

buk9tp

you need to set a shared folder or make the entire hard drive shared to make it accessable