In need of help

[RickH6]

I've just bought a new PC and now i can't share files or view any other computer on my network. My old PC worked perfectly fine on the network. I've even plugged my old PC back in and it worked perfectly fine. It seems to be a problem with my new PC.

I've just done a ipconfig/all in command prompt on all PCs. The Ethernet Adapter on my PC is different to the other PCs on the network. Could this be the problem or doesn't that matter?

I've tried adding a new location automatically and manually but it won't find the folder I'm trying to search for.

Does anyone have any idea how to solve this problem?

One last thing. My laptop is wireless and the signal is terrible when i take the laptop into another room in the house. It only really works if it's in the same room as the main computer. Is there any way i can boost the signal?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

[dmybaseballcity]

Okay, all you need to do is go into My network places and click set home or small office network. It will start a wizard. In some part of the wizard it will aks you if you would like to share folders and printers and you want to select that. After that finish the wizard and you should be all set-up. If you have any firewalls those will need to be turned off or set a learning for it.

[johnwill]

How about some information? What make/model of wireless router, laptop, laptop wireless adapter, version/patch level of Windows in use. On each computer:

Open a DOS window and type:

IPCONFIG /ALL >C:\RESULT.TXT

Open C:\RESULT.TXT with Notepad and copy/paste the entire results here.

[RickH6]

Originally Posted by dmybaseballcity

Okay, all you need to do is go into My network places and click set home or small office network. It will start a wizard. In some part of the wizard it will aks you if you would like to share folders and printers and you want to select that. After that finish the wizard and you should be all set-up. If you have any firewalls those will need to be turned off or set a learning for it.

I've already tried this and it doesn't work.

Originally Posted by johnwill

How about some information? What make/model of wireless router, laptop, laptop wireless adapter, version/patch level of Windows in use. On each computer:

Open a DOS window and type:

IPCONFIG /ALL >C:\RESULT.TXT

Open C:\RESULT.TXT with Notepad and copy/paste the entire results here.

I typed that in, pressed enter and nothing came up.

[johnwill]

Did you read this line?

Open C:\RESULT.TXT with Notepad and copy/paste the entire results here.

[RickH6]

Originally Posted by johnwill

Did you read this line?

Ah sorry.

Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : RICKROOM
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Realtek RTL8139/810x Family Fast Ethernet NIC
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-13-D3-BB-86-A3
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : Don't want to show it publically.
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : 12 January 2006 11:26:00
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : 19 January 2006 11:26:00

[johnwill]

The IP address is simply an internal IP address, there is no security risk to displaying it. I presume it's 192.168.0.x where x is between 2 and 254, right? If so, try this.

TCP/IP stack repair options for use with Windows XP with SP2.

For these commands, Start, Run, CMD to open a command prompt.

Reset WINSOCK entries to installation defaults: netsh winsock reset catalog

Reset TCP/IP stack to installation defaults. netsh int ip reset reset.log