I have a home network with 5 XP PCs/laptops connected to a Netgear router (some wireless, some cabled). I am now trying to connect a Vista laptop to the network and am very confused by how this should work.
What I've done so far: under someone's advice I have renamed my old MSHOME network to WORKGROUP. The Vista laptop has a private network called 'workgroup' with network discovery, file sharing and folder sharing on
Under Start - networks, three are listed: Manager-PC (the PC's name), Manager-PC: Manager:, and Netgear DG834GT (the router). All are connected to network location "Workgroup".
In explorer, under networks, there is one item: manager-PC, but this is not a network, it is a PC.
Networks
- music (a folder I shared)
- public
- users
- printers
On clicking music the error is: "windows cannot access \\manager-PC\music", which is odd because it is a folder on the this PC, so why can't the PC access its own folder?
I am very confused by the workgorups and network locations, and that my Netgear router is listed a a network, yet I cannot 'see' the network anywhere nor any other computers, eg: map network drive finds only manager-PC abnd finds no networks in which to locate other PCs drives.
Why does connecting to a network list only Netgear, even though I am connected to 'workgroup', when manage wireless networks list 5?
Any ideas? The confusion in this post reflects the confusion in mind!
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