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Can someone tell me how to Network a Laptop to share connection with the PC?

Thanks

Hi there, what connection do you want to share? The internet, or just to create a mini network between the two?

A Mini Network. But I think I already know how. The same as a PC to PC network isn't it?

Absolutely no difference. Ask if you need further help with the setup

Ok... I need more help with this Network Setup.

First I will explain...
The 1st computer (connected to a Cable Modem) is on the main floor of the house. It's a Windows 98 and really old. The 2nd computer is in the basement, wirelessly connected and Windows XP. The 3rd is a laptop also wirelessly connected.

Everything is up and running on the internet. Connections are good.

I set up the network for computers 2 and the laptop. Making sure the WorkGroup names are identical and they each have an individual name. Then rebooted the computers.

Everything seemed to work well except when I ran the wizard it asked me to check a box to "ignore the unplugged network devices..." or something like that. Was there a problem I am missing?

I was able to share the documents created in the Laptop with the Computer #2, but I wasn't able to do the same in reverse direction. I want to make sure that I can share the files on Computer #2 with the laptop. But the Computer #2 wasn't showing up on the laptop in the Network Places. Also, I wanted to share the printer from Computer #2 with the laptop but was unable to add that either. (not sure if you can when it's not the host computer). I was a little baffled on this and decided to turn to you for some advice.

Also, any ideas on this...???
The same person wants to share his business files through "quickBooks" between his Laptop and PC. If I make quickBooks a shared file with writing capabilites, is that possible?

Thanks,
Jen

PS. What does a "Bronze Member" stand for?

When you are networking "Peer-to-Peer" the important thing is that the PC that is sharing the information knows that the user (PC) that is requesting the information is actually allowed to have that information. The way you achieve this is to have a common user set up on both PCs with identical username, password and permissions. In essence, if you have a user on PC1 called fred; password: fred - you will need a user on PC2 with the same credentials. That way PC1 sees the user fred as a "friendly" user.

Once you have that user setup then you should have no problems sharing data, internet and also printers between the 2 PCs. You can enhance the sharing of files etc by taking off Simple File Sharing;

Open Windows Explorer
Folder Options
View tab
bottom of the list - un-check "Use simple file sharing"

What is a Bronze member?

Thanks... I'll give that a try.