Right, so now I have three PC's, all running Windows XP (Home), connected to the net in my house. My PC is upstairs in my room, my bro's in his room and the family PC downstairs.

All three PC's connect to the web using a broadband 4 port modem router - broadband line from telephone socket into router modem, then each PC connects to router via cat5 patch cable.

So, I ran the XP Network wizard thingy on my PC up here. Gave the PC a name like it said (MATT) and gave the network a name too (COWAN). It finished and said I should run the wizard on all PC's to be connected to the network. So then I let it reboot itself.

So I go downstairs, and run the wizard on that PC. Gave it a name (COWAN_01) and gave the network a name aswell (COWAN) as it said they all need to be entered on the same name. Same thing, let it reboot.

Meanwhile I go back upstairs. Open the "My Network Places" tab in the start menu and I see a new icon labled "Shared Doc's on MATT" listed under "LOCAL NETWORK"

Cool I think - it's working. So I put a picture in the folder to see if I can access it downstairs. Then I click the "VIEW WORKGROUP COMPUTERS" tab in "My Network Places"

It thinks for a min, then shows two computer icons - one labled MATT and another labled DOWNSTAIRS PC (COWAN_01)

GREAT I think - it is working. So I double click the DOWNSTAIRS PC expecting it to open up so I can get into the shared folder.

But it doesn't! All I get is this error message;



Hmmm..... So I go downstairs to see what thats like.

Open My Network Places and there is nothing. just and FTP site that was there before. I go to "ADD A NETWORK PLACE", find the COWAN network but it won't find my (MATT) PC so I can't add anything.

WTF is going wrong?

ALso, it STILL won't let me add a printer (printer connected to the downstairs PC via US, gave it a name but it won't find it when I select ADD NETWORK PRINTER/BROWSE FOR PRINTER

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