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AlanS17:

--- Quote from: Donkey_Kong on January 10, 2007, 01:07:54 pm ---If you have WinZip installed (or any other program that can unpack .zip files), please use it to unpack NOF.exe to a folder that you want, and then launch the 'setup.exe' file that you will find there after you unpack.[/i]


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The only zipped EXE's I've ever seen had a self-extractor. So I've never even seen one that needed WinZip or the like.

melarky:

--- Quote from: AtomSmasher on January 06, 2007, 05:20:58 pm ---
--- Quote from: Donkey_Kong on January 06, 2007, 03:56:09 pm ---I' don't want to swap files no more with that...They both have DVD Drives that I can just go that way. However, you must have missed up where I cried and bawled about that damn windows network wizard anyway.
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I'm not sure why the network wizard is giving you problems.  All you do is connect the two computers, run the wizard on each one checking the box that says they are directly connected to each other and voila, its done. 

After that, just go to whatever folder you want to share, right click and click on "sharing and security", then click you want to share it.  Then when you go to network neighborhood on the other computer, that folder should appear there.

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I don't want to hijack this thread, but I tried this (to hook my upstairs PC with the one in my arcade).  It didn't seem to work for me (both running WindowsXP), but I think it may be because I have a wireless router, and while the upstairs pc is plugged directly into it, the arcade pc is hooked up to the router through a wireless adapter.

I ran the wizard on both, but the shared folders don't show up on my upstairs (I didn't get any errors, it just didn't seem to work).

boykster:

--- Quote from: melarky on January 11, 2007, 02:37:13 pm ---I don't want to hijack this thread, but I tried this (to hook my upstairs PC with the one in my arcade).  It didn't seem to work for me (both running WindowsXP), but I think it may be because I have a wireless router, and while the upstairs pc is plugged directly into it, the arcade pc is hooked up to the router through a wireless adapter.

I ran the wizard on both, but the shared folders don't show up on my upstairs (I didn't get any errors, it just didn't seem to work).

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have you tried pinging one from teh other?  Go to one computer and start->run->cmd <enter>

this opens a dos box, then type:

ipconfig <enter>

write the IP address down and go to the other computer and open a dos box again and type:

ping XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX

where XXX is the ip you got off the other computer.

report back the IPs of both computers and weather or not you got a response from the pings or if they just timed out.

melarky:
Both pinged fine.  I tried from both (I pinged my main computer from the arcade, and I pinged the arcade from my main computer).  No timeouts, 0% loss, everything seemed to work well.

Maybe I'm missing something here, I ran that wizard on both, but it seems like I setup a network twice, am I supposed to run the wizard on the main computer and setup the network, and then locate the network with the arcade and connect to it?  I didn't see that option.  Sorry for the dumb questions, I've just never done this before :)

leapinlew:

--- Quote from: melarky on January 11, 2007, 02:37:13 pm ---I don't want to hijack this thread, but I tried this (to hook my upstairs PC with the one in my arcade).  It didn't seem to work for me (both running WindowsXP), but I think it may be because I have a wireless router, and while the upstairs pc is plugged directly into it, the arcade pc is hooked up to the router through a wireless adapter.

I ran the wizard on both, but the shared folders don't show up on my upstairs (I didn't get any errors, it just didn't seem to work).

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So many things could be jacked up here. If they can ping each other, and your sure they are on the same network. You could try connecting to each computer by sharename. To do this, click start, run and type

\\computername

But replace computername with the name of the computer you are trying to connect to. If you have shared folders, and everyone is allowed to access to those folders, have simple file sharing turned on, using XP pro on both machines, have no firewalls on, allowing all the ports on the router.... you should be fine!  ;D

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