Netwonk

[kingandy]

Am currently trying to configure windows home network. Cock shit god-damn motherfucker.

Have plugged Mum's PC into the cable TV box directly by way of lemony goodness a big fuck-off wire. Internet connection thence works fine (obviously). Whether it's possible to share this internet connection is up to debate, as Telewest have this one-MAC-address-at-a-time prejudice going, but I've not actually got to that stage yet. The stage I am at is one of trying to get my computer and hers to talk to one another via wireless witchery.

It will not happen.

I have set up the same network on both PCs, and there would appear to be connectivity - the helpful Windows connection properties thing says transmissions are being received (though the signal strength is medium-low, a consequence of being physically two floors away). I've set both computers to the same workgroup and such. But the one computer will not acknowledge the presence of the other. Browsing to "nearby computers" or whatever shows only the one from which one is browsing, which is at least a step up from refusing to accept that there were any computers in existence, anywhere, including itself.

I suspect it is some arcane secret involving turning them off and on in the correct order. That's what it usually is.

Comments

[kingandy]

I have no clue. It's doing that horrible thing where it's really easy to use as long as you're trying to do exactly what they think you want to do, but really difficult to find the actual settings if you want to do something interesting and new.

[kneeshooter]

It's much easier to do this interactively. Can you get MSN/etc. running on one and I'll talk at you (ideally when you can also change things on the other PC obviously)?

[kingandy]

Yes. Yes I can. :)