Networking home PC's

[kris860911]

Hey. I have a billion 7300 router that I use to connect to the internet.

Now, both XP wired PC's and Vista wireless laptop can connect to the router and get onto the net, without problems.

But I cannot figure out how to create a network with shared folder's between the PC's etc...

Any1 have any ideas?

 

[LandyMan]

I am not familiar with the router, but I assume it assigns IPs to the different machines via DHCP?

 

[acidrain]

honestly i dont understand the use of dhcp with small networks, just manually assign and leave it at that.

 

[LandyMan]

honestly i dont understand the use of dhcp with small networks, just manually assign and leave it at that.

that might be where the problem lies (but I can be wrong). If it is DHCP assigned, you don't have to worry about subnets, gateways, etc. Then it is just a question of sharing the folders with the correct permissions

 

[kris860911]

Ok. I set the IP Addresses manually. I do this anyway so that the default gateway can be set to the Router... But then cant see the other computers. Im not sure what I'm doing wrong.

 

[killadoob]

set all the pc to automatic obtain ip

dont put in all those details

make sure change vista to the correct workgroup for faster finding of pc's and make sure all pc xp or vista on the same network

also in vista dont use ipv6 for the ip details use ipv4

if your routers ip is 10.0.0.2

your pc's need to be in that range eg 10.0.0.3

so your pc should look like this

10.0.0.3
255.255.255.0
10.0.0.2

preferred dns must be your 10.0.0.2 which is your router

 

[kris860911]

preferred dns must be your 10.0.0.2 which is your router

I thought the default gateway was for the router...
. But thanks. Will try this when I get home

 

[chinese eyes]

Gateway & Primary DNS should be set to your router's address.

If you haven't shared on the machines before

Turn Simple File Sharing on in XP:
1. Double-click My Computer on the desktop.
2. On the Tools menu, click Folder Options.
3. Click the View tab, and then select the Use Simple File Sharing (Recommended) checkbox to turn on Simple File Sharing.

Vista likes a lot more done, so here's a link:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/network/evaluate/vista_fp.mspx#EED

You might not have to follow all the steps they mention but I find if I check everything it always works. (so far...)

Also you don't mention what firewall software you are using on the machines. Some of them need to be told to trust your local network or IP range.

hope this helps

 

[ghalied]

set all the pc to automatic obtain ip

dont put in all those details

make sure change vista to the correct workgroup for faster finding of pc's and make sure all pc xp or vista on the same network

also in vista dont use ipv6 for the ip details use ipv4

if your routers ip is 10.0.0.2

your pc's need to be in that range eg 10.0.0.3

so your pc should look like this

10.0.0.3
255.255.255.0
10.0.0.2

preferred dns must be your 10.0.0.2 which is your router

doubt his router supports variable subnets as the ip is a classfull IP "A". DHCP is his best and simplest route.

 

[ghalied]

Gateway & Primary DNS should be set to your router's address.

If you haven't shared on the machines before

Turn Simple File Sharing on in XP:
1. Double-click My Computer on the desktop.
2. On the Tools menu, click Folder Options.
3. Click the View tab, and then select the Use Simple File Sharing (Recommended) checkbox to turn on Simple File Sharing.

Vista likes a lot more done, so here's a link:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/network/evaluate/vista_fp.mspx#EED

You might not have to follow all the steps they mention but I find if I check everything it always works. (so far...)

Also you don't mention what firewall software you are using on the machines. Some of them need to be told to trust your local network or IP range.

hope this helps

Agree, here, just create folder on XP pc, right click, select sharing and security, create share name and set permission to everyone then from the other pc do run \\computername or ip\c$ to see all shares on the pc, or just use explorer to navigate to the share.

 

[cheetz007]

I have been using my laptop with a wired connection to my router and sharing files quite happily. I switched my laptop to use a wireless card and now I can't see either machine from the other. Both machines connect quite happily to the internet, it's just that they refuse to see each other. I've noticed a few complaints along these lines so it's obviously a fairly common problem.

 

[Jonny Two Shoes]

doubt his router supports variable subnets as the ip is a classfull IP "A". DHCP is his best and simplest route.

Ye have had no problems with DHCP myself :/

I find when I start playing around with static addresses some PC's can see network and not Internet and sometimes they see Internet and not network

DHCP ftw

If all your PC's connect to one router it is easy to use static but at my home network we got some connected to a linksys wrtg and some connected to a switch and then router. Bit of a headache to worry about IP's :/