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Old March 22nd, 2006, 10:19 AM
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Cannot connect to other PCs on Home Network

Hi

I'm having an odd networking problem - three pcs running W2k, all connect to internet fine via wireless router, but I can't get the pcs to connect to each other to share files etc. When I go into Make New Connection Wizard, the option to "connect directly to another computer" is greyed out so I can't access it. Anyone know how I can get this to work? Used to work ok but had to re-install Windows not long back and hasn't worked since.

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Old March 22nd, 2006, 06:06 PM
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Did you setup file sharing on all of them? You shouldn't have to make any additional connections to share files on your LAN. If your not sure how to set up file sharing see THIS DOCUMENT from Microsoft.
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