Network sharing not working

[sergiogarcia9]

Hello guys

I am having a problem. I cant share my folders from my main pc to my laptop and mediacenter, and the other way around

Folders/drives are checked and set to share with everyone (advanced sharing, read only), but none of them shows in the network in explorer

Also Homegroups doesnt work, says theres something wrong with the internet, which cant be right since theyre all connected as they should be

Anyone got any ideas?

Thanks in advance

SG9

 

[sergiogarcia9]

No one? :huh:

 

[aem]

Nah we're all just looking at your sig...not time to help sorry...hehe

I assume you have covered all the essentials like Network Discovery, Files and Printer settings.

Have you looked at my tut on sharing...you never know what can come out of it...

 

[sergiogarcia9]

Yep tried that, didnt work (your tut that is)

 

[aem]

So when you typed into your browser \\ipaddress (of the sharing pc), a window comes up blank? Where abouts are the shared folders?

 

[sergiogarcia9]

So when you typed into your browser \\ipaddress (of the sharing pc), a window comes up blank? Where abouts are the shared folders?

Before i just logged on the network and the PC's were there, i logged onto them and took whatever i wanted. Before i did i made sure that the folders were shared. (on all computers)

Folders are both on Windows 7 partion (local disk) and other partions.

 

[aem]

Have you tried and map a share manually? I assume you mean in Network link in your Windows Explorer no machines listed? You know that if the machines are not on the same network/vlan they won't be listed right?

 

[sergiogarcia9]

Have you tried and map a share manually?

Hmm, i'm not sure what you mean by that

 

[aem]

Create a folder share from one machine, and try and connect to it from another.

 

[sergiogarcia9]

Create a folder share from one machine, and try and connect to it from another.

Tried that, didnt work

Also tried homegroups, but there seems to be problems with the network, but the troubleshooter has no solutions for it :S

 

[sergiogarcia9]

Sorry i wrote something wrong

It runs the troubleshooter, then goes to a network troubleshooter and says something about "some homegroup issues can be network related"

 

[sergiogarcia9]

What is way weirder, is that my laptop is visible on both my main PC and my Media Center, in the network tab in explorer.

Simply my main pc and media center can't find each other/work together

Homegroup not working on all of them.

 

[aem]

You cannot map network share from one pc to another? What's doing there?

Can the machine ping one another?

 

[sergiogarcia9]

Well i'm giving up, i can stream the vids via WMP instead or transfer the movies/files using my external HDD or USB pen

Anyways thx for your help aem

 

[aem]

You can't give up on simple things like map network drives man....it's a prereq in life..

 

[sergiogarcia9]

Well for now, i give up.

I will be installing windows 7 on another partion soon anyways, so it might work with that partion