Networking Vista wireless laptop to vista main pc

[piperinnz]

Hi,

I'm having an issue, trying to setup a home network, my main pc is directly connected to the internet via ethernet cable, I am trying to get my laptop to connect to my main pc, so it can share files etc, I have got it to the point where it can 'see' my mainpc, but it is saying the network path is not found. From my Main pc, I can see my laptop, and can access the files on it, why can I not do this, the other way round.

Really would appreciate your help.
Thanks
Lynda

 

[TerryNet]

Can you ping the "main pc" by IP address? By name? If yes to both questions what happen when you type into the Run box

\\IPof_mainpc

where "IPof_mainpc" is the IP address of the "main pc"?

 

[JohnWill]

For each of the machines, let's see this.

Hold the Windows key and press R, then type CMD to open a command prompt:

In the command prompt window that opens, type type the following commands, one at a time, followed by the Enter key:

NBTSTAT -n

IPCONFIG /ALL

Right click in the command window and choose Select All, then hit Enter.
Paste the results in a message here.

If you are on a machine with no network connection, use a floppy, USB disk, or a CD-RW disk to transfer a text file with the information to allow pasting it here.