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Damager

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#69296 5-Oct-2010 23:52
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Hi Folks

I have a Thomson wireless router/modem. The free one you get with the Telecom Home Plan. I have a desktop pc connected via ethernet, and 2 laptops via wireless. The desktop is windows 7, one laptop windows 7 and the other laptop vista.

For some reason, the desktop sees only the vista laptop as a "PC", yet sees both laptops as "Media Device"

From both laptops, all 3 are seen as "PC", so I'm scratching my head trying to figure out why the desktop cant see the windows 7 laptop as a PC.

Tried restarts on all 3 and the situation remains.

Any ideas anyone? Nothing has changed recently so cant pinpoint at which point the desktop stopped seeing the windows 7 laptop as a pc.

Thanks for the help in advance.

Cheers

Steve 




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  #393121 18-Oct-2010 12:18
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You may not have file sharing turned on. If you only have media shared (like what happens when you go through the new network wizard) then you may need to enable file sharing for the pc to show up. right click on a folder and go through the sharing settings and see if that works.
If file sharing is turned on then try access the computer using \\192.168.1.56\ in the address bar in my computer (use the actual ip address of the computer, not the one above) if that works then the computer will show up as a computer afterwards.

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