Hi all...

Does anyone know how to connect my Vista laptop to my XP base station using a wireless router?

Somehow I have managed to get both computers accessing the internet through the wireless router but can't work out how to access one computer from another.

Any help in the form of a dummies step by step guide would be much appreciated..

Arkie...

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Float On By ~ The One Stop Hook & Float Shop

There's two ways you can do this. You can either set the permissions on some of the XP folders to "shared", which will allow you to access those folders/drives or you can use Remote Desktop Connection which will open your XP PC in a window on your laptop, this will give you almost as much control over your XP PC as you would have if you were sitting in front of it. You will need to have XP Pro installed and not the home version for this to work though. I've never used Vista, so I can't be too specific how to configure your laptop.

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Lawrence

Thanks for the reply Lawrence...

But how do I get either computer to recognise the other one and find each other on the wireless network?

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The easiest way is to use the networking wizard to configure your network. I have no idea how this works on Vista though as I have never used it.

You may also need to configure your router to allow both machines to talk to each other as many are configured by default to only allow wireless connections to connect to the net but not to other computers on the network. You will need to read your router's manual for specific details on how to configure this.

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Lawrence