What do I do for him to be able to accesss my hard-drive also.
2007-05-17 01:46:06 · 7 answers · asked by RAVIE G 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Computer Networking
You need to put his IP address in your trusted computer zone in your firewall.
2007-05-17 09:24:37 · answer #1 · answered by Taba 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Do NOT turn the firewall of. Set the exception for file and printer sharing in the firewall. Both machines should be in the same workgroup. Create shares on any folders you wish to offer by right clicking the folder and turning the sharing on. Do NOT expose the whole drive, or the system folders, this is the fast way to get your system trashed in a network. If his machine is Vista he will need to go to tcp/ip properties and advanced. Then select the wins tab and turn on always use netbios over tcp/ip, turn off use lmhosts.
2007-05-17 08:55:01 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
If he right clicks on My documents and properties and checks the boxes marked sharing - then you can go to my network places and make my documents on his PC a network place that is shared. You can usually browse for the shred place in XP. A shared place on my laptop is \\LAPTOP\SharedDocs . Each computer has to have a name - my laptop is called laptop and my desktop is called desktop. I keep things simple! lol
2007-05-17 10:27:33 · answer #3 · answered by Mike10613 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you connect your laptop to the pc via USB you will have installed the cd rom software on your laptop. did you also install it on your mates pc. If you can access his hd you should be able to transfer files from one to the other anyway
If not try setting them up to share files , printers etc
2007-05-17 10:27:43 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
they need to be on the same network,
R click on My computer select properties then computer name check the network Workgroup and see if the drive/file path is shared out...
2007-05-17 09:16:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
shut off your firewall and allow sharing by right clicking what folder you want to share and under the sharing tab, allow sharing on the lan
2007-05-17 08:58:53 · answer #6 · answered by medic391 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Your firewall could be turned on, trying disabling it.
2007-05-17 08:48:51 · answer #7 · answered by Jon M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋