Ping but no network

[JoeyJ]

Hi Everybody

What does it mean when I can ping a machine on a wireless network but I can't see the harddrive of that machine?

The other night I was getting reliable pings of less than 10ms, 95% signal strength, but no matter what I did I couldn't see the harddrives of the remote computer. Sometimes I can see, sometimes I can't, and I have no idea as to why.

There is no problem with mapping the harddrive, some times the network works perfectly and I stream mp3s across the network all day, other times when I try to browse the remote harddrive windows says the network path cannot be found.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Joey

[umdivx]

what version of windows? are you all on the same workgroup or domain? also in the tcp/ip advanced settings do you have "enable netbios over tcp/ip" enabled?

check those and post back.

- Josh

[sniper]

Hi there,

Check the default share or the drive share option under properties. Rt. Click on c drive & check if it is shared else this message that you are getting is perfect.

[DerDeutscher]

check if you have any firewalls running on the machine, also i had a simular problem if this is a bridge with a winxp/2003 machine between a wired/wireless network, very strange but it turned out that the bridge needed to have an ip on the network and a def. gateway before it would push any traffic through