Sharing files between computers

Dear forumreaders,

I have recently purchased a new laptop, a HP 6550eb, and a wireless router, a D-Link DIR-635. The setup of the router did not go well but right now it's working fine and my notebook can acces the internet everywhere in the house. However I'd like to transfer all my music files that are located on my desktop pc -which is connected to the routed with an ethernet cable- to my new notebook.

Being a total network-noob I don't know how to do this but after reading and trying various things, I can't still get it to work. Please be aware that my both windows copies (XP on desktop, Vista on notebook) are in Dutch so the description of certain actions will not correspond to the english names.

I've done the following: on my notebook in network connections I changed the network from public to private and I've changed the computers workgroup name.
On the desktop I used the "configure home network or small company network" wizard and made sure the workgroup name is the same as on the laptop.

I don't know what to do next. On both computers in "network" I can't see the other computer. On the notebook I see the router and my own laptop in network.

Can anyone please help me?

 

Are you running a firewall? That's one of the more common networking pitfalls.

 

I'm running Norton security suite on the Laptop, Etrust security suite on the notebook and I think the router has some kind of built in firewall.

 

There are numerous post on this subject,just do a search and you should find what you need.

 

Try shutting them down to see if you can see the other on the network.

 

The shutting down of both firewalls briefly got me a connection established between both computers. However as I enabled them again, trying to figure out which one it was and which settings need change, the connection broke and never came back. Even after turning of both firewalls again. I guess if I keep playing with the firewalls and settings it will show up again some time but it's weird and bugs me that this connection is so hard to set up/maintain.

Thanks for the tip Reezin, I'll look into some of those. And many thanks for the help ZaZ, if it would not establish connection again I'll revive this thread for further help.

 

It sounds like you need to make allowances trusted zone/ip ranges on each computer in your firewall setting.