Need help making computers talk to each other?

trying to set up home network. Have wired router and two network cards. I am on the internet on both computers, but need to get computers to talk to each other. need to configure windows. tried with no success. please help!!!

Need help making computers talk to each other?norton ghost

go to start menu, control panel, network connections, on the left hand side, click my network places, then clikc view workgroup computers, is your other PC there? If not use the the home network setup wizard. You can right click on files in either PC and share them on your network, you can do the same for the hard drives, it is fairly simple to do.

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Thank you everyone for your input. The answers definitely got me closer to having it set up. Report It


If you are just wanting to share files, on one computer, right-click the folder that the files are in and choose ''Sharing and Security''. On the page that comes up, choose the radio button next to ''Share this folder''. By default it will share it to anyone, which is not very secure, but works. You can adjust who can see it by using the permissions button. Once your done, click OK. On the other computer, you should now be able to see the first computers shared folder. You can browse to it several ways, I usually click ''Start'' then ''run'' then type in the name of the computer using this format: \\ComputerName then click OK, and it will show you all available shares on that machine.
make sure they are on the same workgroup (control panel %26gt; system %26gt; computer name tab %26gt; click on change if needed)

run network wizard if necessary

Start %26gt; Control Panel %26gt; Network Setup Wizard

share some folders from both computers (right click on a file and select properties, then sharing)
Make sure they are on the same workgroup. After that you should be able to see the computers. Then setup your sharing!