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I recently bought a Belkin ADSL modem with wireless g router i have set it all up and i am on the internet perfectly on both my laptop and desktop.

what i would like to do is to make it so i can access my external hard drive which is plugged into the desktop pc on my laptop over the belkin router

could anyone give me some help on where i would start on doing this ?

my desktop pc is windows xp home edition
my laptop is windows vista home premium edition

please help
thanks

Hello jtjosh123, welcome to PCHF.

That is a question that has been asked many times on PCHF. Here is an example: http://www.pchelpforum.com/windows-x...etup-help.html

I just went to the post you linked and followed the instructions there


when i tried to do the "pc2" part on my laptop (vista) and searched for the folder it said that my ip was not set up to share files and printing any ideas how to set it up for that

router - belkin adsl wireless g router

Sorry Jt, you said you search for the folder? The instructions describe how to type in the name of the folder you want to share with PC1, no searching involved?

Oh sorry about that i worded it wrong
i meant that i had followed the instructions and entered the folder i want to share but when i go on my vista laptop i cannot see it
i have looked in the network folder and it is not there

Jt,

It may vary slightly between XP and Vista, but there's no need to look for it via My Network Places. You may need to alter some more network settings before you can see it here, but I'm assuming you would rather a perminent drive letter mapped to the disk drive on your PC?

Find out the IP Address of your PC, go to Start, Run, and type in cmd. From the command window, type in ipconfig which will give you your IP address. Right click on My Computer, and click on Map Network Drive. Select a drive letter and use the path \\IPaddress\Sharname (for example: \\192.168.1.3\myShare).

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