Networking 2 PC's

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What's up, I have 2 PC's, both with Windows XP SP2, and I have my internet connection split with this Router:

Westell Versalink 327W

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I want my 2nd PC (a crappy IBM Aptiva with a Netgear Ethernet Card) to view, and use files, preferably video files (AVI, MPG ETC.) from my main PC. They both can go online simultaneously, so now how can I go about making the aptiva view the files from my main PC?

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Have fun with that router man. I have the same exact one and it's funny because the other computer I was trying to get it to network with also has a Netgear card. Anyway, it took me a while to get that thing working right and honestly I still don't know how I finally got it working. It just started working so I stopped messing with the settings.

From what I've read this router causes a lot of issues

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  halloween_david said:
Have fun with that router man. I have the same exact one and it's funny because the other computer I was trying to get it to network with also has a Netgear card. Anyway, it took me a while to get that thing working right and honestly I still don't know how I finally got it working. It just started working so I stopped messing with the settings.

From what I've read this router causes a lot of issues

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How exactly do you access the files?

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On the PC that has the files that you want to share, find the folder(s) with the files in, right click and go to sharing then make it say share this file/folder. Make sure it says everyone can read it. You have to make sure the guest account is enabled on this pc if you dont want to type in a username and password every time.

Then on the other pc, go to my network places. The shares should appear in here. If they don't go to view all computer on network and double click on the computer and see if they are in there.

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