[SOLVED] recognized computer, unrecognized drives

[dennishoover75]

I have two computers (both running windows xp home, sp2). My desktop is recognizing the laptop's shared drives and it's own shared drives in my network places. The laptop is recognizing its own shared drives and the desktop, but not the shared drives on the desktop. I am using a wireless router (belkin wireless g plus mimo router) to connect (the desktop is connected via cord, the laptop is connected wirelessly). I had them recognizing each other before i had to reformat the desktop. When I ran the network setup wizard, i used the exact same setup on both. What do I need to do?

[johnwill]

For each of the computers, let's see this.

Hold the Windows key and press R, then type CMD to open a command prompt:

Type the following two commands, one at a time, followed by the Enter key:

NBTSTAT -n

IPCONFIG /ALL

Right click in the command window and choose Select All, then hit Enter.
Paste the results in a message here.

If you are on a machine with no network connection, use a floppy, USB disk, or a CD-RW disk to transfer a text file with the information to allow pasting it here.

[dennishoover75]

this is the info from both computers
(also attached as .txt documents)

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Daddy>nbtstat -n

Embarq:
Node IpAddress: [192.168.2.3] Scope Id: []

NetBIOS Local Name Table

Name Type Status
---------------------------------------------
HOOVER1 <00> UNIQUE Registered
HOME <00> GROUP Registered
HOOVER1 <20> UNIQUE Registered

C:\Documents and Settings\Daddy>ipconfig /all

Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : HOOVER1
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : Home

Ethernet adapter Embarq:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Home
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Broadcom NetXtreme 57xx Gigabit Cont
roller
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-11-11-D2-9A-A1
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.2.3
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.2.1
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.2.1
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.2.1
192.168.2.1
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Thursday, March 20, 2008 09:46:22
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Friday, March 20, 2009 09:46:22

[johnwill]

Neither of them are recognized as the master browser, this is one problem.

I'd start by disabling ALL the firewalls and see if that helps. Can you ping by computer name to the other computer?

[dennishoover75]

Originally Posted by johnwill

Neither of them are recognized as the master browser, this is one problem.

I'd start by disabling ALL the firewalls and see if that helps. Can you ping by computer name to the other computer?

How do I ping by computer name to the other computer?

[dennishoover75]

I finally got it figured out. I had to change a setting in my firewall. Thanks for your assistance.

[johnwill]

Thanks for the feedback.