I tried to setup a network between my husbands computer and mine. I ran the
Network Wizard on both computers... turned off the Windows Firewall on both
computers. My husbands computer (computer #1) is running XP home and I am
running XP professional (computer #2). Computer #1 can see all the files and
the printer connected to Computer #2 but computer#2 cannot see anything
related to computer #1. I saw something in an article somewhere on here to
get the IP address from computer #1 and then to open command prompt and
enter... net use*\\(IPADDRESS)\(Name of shared files) ... Well I did that and
it said:
The syntax of this command is:
NET [ACCOUNTS | COMPUTER | CONFIG | CONTINUE | FILE | GROUP |
HELP | HELPMSG | LOCALGROUP | NAME | PAUSE | PRINT | SEND | SESSION | SHARE |
START | STATISTICS | STOP |TIME | USE | USER | VIEW ]

Anyway I have tried re-running the Network setup wizard on computer #2
several times and still haven't had any luck. Any help would be greatly
appreciated and I hope that I have included enough information. TIA

On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 13:11:01 -0800, babysqurl
<babysqurl@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I tried to setup a network between my husbands computer and mine. I ran the
>Network Wizard on both computers... turned off the Windows Firewall on both
>computers. My husbands computer (computer #1) is running XP home and I am
>running XP professional (computer #2). Computer #1 can see all the files and
>the printer connected to Computer #2 but computer#2 cannot see anything
>related to computer #1. I saw something in an article somewhere on here to
>get the IP address from computer #1 and then to open command prompt and
>enter... net use*\\(IPADDRESS)\(Name of shared files) ... Well I did that and
>it said:
> The syntax of this command is:
> NET [ACCOUNTS | COMPUTER | CONFIG | CONTINUE | FILE | GROUP |
>HELP | HELPMSG | LOCALGROUP | NAME | PAUSE | PRINT | SEND | SESSION | SHARE |
>START | STATISTICS | STOP |TIME | USE | USER | VIEW ]
>
>Anyway I have tried re-running the Network setup wizard on computer #2
>several times and still haven't had any luck. Any help would be greatly
>appreciated and I hope that I have included enough information. TIA

One of the most common causes of this problem would be a misconfigured or
overlooked personal firewall, but there are other possibilities too.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/10/irregularities-in-workgroup-visibility.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/1...isibility.html

If no help yet, provide "browstat status" and "ipconfig /all" from each
computer, so we can diagnose the problem. Read this article, and linked
articles, and follow instructions precisely:
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/troubleshooting-network-neighborhood.html#AskingForHelp>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/0...#AskingForHelp

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Cheers,
Chuck, MS-MVP [Windows - Networking]
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/
Paranoia is not a problem, when it's a normal response from experience.
My email is AT DOT
actual address pchuck mvps org.

You're mistyping the net use command, that's why you get the generic help
text returned.

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"babysqurl" <babysqurl@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news740DF05-F40E-4927-A46D-49E2D7E0D332@microsoft.com...
>I tried to setup a network between my husbands computer and mine. I ran the
> Network Wizard on both computers... turned off the Windows Firewall on
> both
> computers. My husbands computer (computer #1) is running XP home and I am
> running XP professional (computer #2). Computer #1 can see all the files
> and
> the printer connected to Computer #2 but computer#2 cannot see anything
> related to computer #1. I saw something in an article somewhere on here to
> get the IP address from computer #1 and then to open command prompt and
> enter... net use*\\(IPADDRESS)\(Name of shared files) ... Well I did that
> and
> it said:
> The syntax of this command is:
> NET [ACCOUNTS | COMPUTER | CONFIG | CONTINUE | FILE | GROUP |
> HELP | HELPMSG | LOCALGROUP | NAME | PAUSE | PRINT | SEND | SESSION |
> SHARE |
> START | STATISTICS | STOP |TIME | USE | USER | VIEW ]
>
> Anyway I have tried re-running the Network setup wizard on computer #2
> several times and still haven't had any luck. Any help would be greatly
> appreciated and I hope that I have included enough information. TIA