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Posted by Malke on August 16, 2005, 8:42 am
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Eddie Gee wrote:
> I have recently set up a network at home with a Desk and Laptop.
> Specific aim was to be able to share files fully (i.e. eidt
> /modify save) on my desktop with my laptop. Laptop has small hd so
> don't want to hold the info there. Can see both computers and files in
> my network
> places but when I open a desktop resident file on the laptop it
> allows read only. If I go back to the Desktop and try to give
> permissions to users on the laptop, I can't because when browsing
> locations the Desktop only shows itself as a location. I.e. it cannot
> see the laptop and therefore I can't change permissions. Can someone
> help? Also I find strage that the two printers I have set up shares to
> the latop come up as 'Auto' when I look at them - what does that mean?
You haven't told us what operating systems the two machines are running.
Because you mention "Auto" for the printers on the laptop, I assume
you've got some version of XP - Home or Pro. To answer that second
question first, you've got the laptop set to automatically find
printers and it has found the ones available. This saves you the
trouble of installing the printers on the laptop. Can you successfully
print to both printers from the laptop?
If you have XP on both machines, run the Network Setup Wizard on both
computers. This is often enough to fix network problems. Also, you may
have a misconfigured firewall on either (or both) computers. Make sure
that 1) you only have one firewall running on each machine; 2) and that
the firewall is configured to allow the lan as trusted.
Malke
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