Quick Vista/XP networking problem question.

[redlight]

This may stating the obvious but are you sure you have permission to share. Have a look here

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/net.../vista_fp.mspx

[emul8]

Thanks for the link redlight.

I reinstalled last night and this morning I got everything working again.
I turned on Network dicovery, File sharing and turned off Password protected sharing.

I then hit Connect to a network under Tasks in the left hand pane, Restarted and it was all working again

I can browse to shared folders on both machines

[Clunk]

Yep, all permissions are set, as I said, it works for small files, but dies when I try and transfer any bigger files.

I just tried it again with a 20meg nvidia driver file and it was transfering at 1.00mb/sec right up to half way and then it came up with the error and that time I also lost my connection to the internet.

Does anyone else think that this could be a fault with the router?

[emul8]

Its looking like there could be!
Would it be possible to hard-wire the two machines via a crossed over cable and remove the router

[Clunk]

Yes, I have a crossover cable somewhere, I'll try it out.

The more I think about it, the more I remember other instances like this where the router kept dropping the signal, but in the past it was only flakey until it was reset. Now its always flakey

Thanks

[emul8]

My 2wire router used to freeze displaying two red lights after being used for a length of time.

Now there is just a dent in the wall were it used to be!

[Clunk]

I think one of those wrt54 ones from novatech is looking likely, they seem to be well regarded