Solved accessing win 7 from win 8 over wifi network

[kf10]

i have 2 laptop, one with win 7 and one with win 8

yesterday when i tried to access win 7 laptop over wifi network from windows 8 computer

i got the following error message

 

[kf10]

when i tried to access win 8 laptop over wifi network from windows 7 computer

i was also unable to ping win 8 computer from win 7 as seen in screen shot

i did check the ip address to make sure that i didnt misspell the ip address

i got the following error message

 

[AddRAM]

Did you create a homegroup on 1 PC and join the other PC to that Homegroup, and did you turn on all the sharing options on both PC`s ?

192.168.10.3 is a strange IP Address, are you sure it`s not 192.168.1.3 ????

 

[kf10]

Dear ADDRAM

can you please guide me to tutorial on how to create homegroup and turn on sharing

i used ipconfig command to find the IP address as 192.168.10.3, we have wireless router which assigns DHCP IP address to all the computers in my home

thanks in advance

 

[AddRAM]

Control Panel>Homegroup

 

[AddRAM]

Can you ping the router ?

192.168.10.1 ????

 

[kf10]

Dear AddRAM

ok thanks

and yes i can ping the router

 

[AddRAM]

OK then once you create the Homegroup each pc should be able to see each other.

Make sure this is changed to Homegroup on both PC`s.

 

[AddRAM]

You should also be able to login to the router if it`s ip address indeed is 192.168.10.1

Type 192.168.10.1 into Chrome, hit enter and your router login page should come up.

Does it ?

 

[kf10]

yes i am able to see the login page of router