How do get full access between computers on a home network?

Computers are connected to internet via the same gateway and share a printer. Dell pentium III connected via ethernet (50 ft) Compaq 1.6 ghz connected via usb. Dell has XP pro. Compaq has XP home. Current home network is from XP os.

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If both computers are networked using your router. Enter router firmware and make sure you configure an option for the router to assign pirvate ip numbers for home networks.

Check both computers are in the same subnet %26 workgroup

Computer A 192.168.0.7 255.255.0.0

Computer B 192.162.0.9 255.255.0.0

In this example Computers A %26 B have different IP numbers using the same subnet. Thus they will not communicate well because the subnets prevent the 2 IP numbers to see one another in a private home network.

By changing computer B to 192.168 and then the computers are on the same subnet and should be able to network as well as being in the same workgroup.

Subnet IP

The 255 means match number exactly

0 means wild card any number from 1 to 255

Example Subnet 255.255.255.0 - tells computer tcp/ip only to communicate to this level/group of ip numbers/

Which translates to an group of ip numbers with an exact match of 192.168.0.

the 1st 3 digits of the ip must be exact.since the first 3 numbers of subnet are 255.255.255.. then 4th number since the 4th number in the subnet is 0 which tells the computer to accept any number between 1 to 255

192.168.0.... 1 to 255

255.255.255.0

check both computers for ip # and subnet

start%26gt;run%26gt;cmd

then type

ipconfig /all

make sure microsoft file %26 print sharing and microsoft networking is installed. In LAN connection property page. Its needed to share files and communicate in a home network.

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right click on the drive you want to share and go to sharing! and select share this root drive