Basic network problem

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Rich The DJ

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Hello again
Ok, i have recently had problems with a corrupt harddrive on my laptop. So i sent it away to packard bell where, without telling me, they replaaced the hard drive. I was not best pleased. Anyhow this means that the wireless network between the wifi on my laptop and the router on my desktop was erased, because all the settings were on the old hard drive. I rang up the company who set up the old wireless network and they said i should just be able to bring my laptop to them and they can set it up again, without needing to touch the desktop. So now my wireless internet conection is working fine, but i cant accsess the files on my desktop via the network. There are files which are shared, but i cannot pick them up on my laptop. What do i need to do? When i click on my network places i just get a empy white box, theres nothing in it. However on my desktop there is 5 or 6 folders being shared. My laptop also says that the local area connection is not connected, i presume this is the network connection for file shareing?

Cheers
Rich
 
You never said how you connected to your desktop, so lets see if that'll work at all. On your desktop, go to RUN, type CMD, then at the command prompt, type ipconfig. Remember your IP address(probably something like 192.168.1.2) On your laptop, go to RUN, and type in the ip address with two slashes(IE, if it was like above, then \\192.168.1.2) This SHOULD access your desktop if all is correct.
 
Ok, i did all that and it has not worked. Im not sure wether this is the problem but the IP address was nothing like you stated. It was infact 10.0.0.8, im guessing that is not right?

Cheers
Rich
 
Ok, i have tryed to do the same on my laptop however whn i type in ipconfig and press enter noting happens, wereas on the desktop i got up the info with ip address on ect. What am i doing wrong?

Cheers so far
Rich
 
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