Home wireless network with ip conflict

[The Philosopher]

I have two pc accessing a netgear asdl router modem via wireless, but they dont want to work concurrently. if the one is connected the other cant connect. windows said that the pc that is trying to connect has the same ip address as the other pc. so i think it is the routers fault for not providing an ip address.

how do i fix this?

 

[Technically]

Make sure your have set your computers network cards to assign automatically for the IP address settings. If they are already assigned automatically try giving them a setup address.

Make sure to set your gateway address as the IP address of the router. Set your 1st DNS setting as this same address.

 

[The Philosopher]

my ip conflict, seems to have resolved itself. but i have anotehr problem.
i want to share stuff on my pc that has vista. i shared the folders. my other pc can see them but i cant access them because it says access denied. i dont understand. i have tried everything, but vista just wont let me see the folders. why?

 

[StoneCold]

Does the other pc have XP loaded ? If so, make a share folder on XP and work via that. You can try till you blue in the face, you'll hardly ever get to access Vista/Win 7 from a XP based pc. Believe me I have tried.

EDIT: I just found a way to copy data to my work laptop from XP via my desktop Win 7 system, so it really is possible.

 

[The Philosopher]

both pc are laptops and both have vista. i ****ing hate the admin associated with getting pc's to see each other. there is always a problem.

 

[luketang56]

Usually in sharing and security you just need to enable all the rights(on the shared files PC) so that the other PC can get full access to all the files on the other PC... worked for me..

 

[Pada]

If you get the IP conflict message, you can always get the MAC address that caused it, by going to Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Log Viewer. The IP conflict message would be somewhere in there (I can't remember where exactly).
When you open the log entry, it would show the MAC address that caused the conflict.

 

[StoneCold]

Usually in sharing and security you just need to enable all the rights(on the shared files PC) so that the other PC can get full access to all the files on the other PC... worked for me..

+ 1 that's how I got it to work earlier

 

[The Philosopher]

cool will try that out when i get home