dead LAN- help me!!

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Hey guys. I recently bought a linksys 10/100 cable router, the one port one, and got it connected to my LAN. now all comps can surf the net at like 3.5mbps, but i cannot share files or printers! I tried reinstalling everything, renaming my workgroup and client names, and all that, but nothing works. When i rename the workgroup and restart, everythings fine in network neighborhood, but when i shutdown and bootup 15min later, everythings gone! please give me some suggestions. thanks fellas!
alex

[zero~abYss]

You have to turn on File and Printer sharing first (and possibly install it).

Right Click on Network Nieghborhood:

If you have file and printer sharing skip to 2)

1)Click ADD -> Service -> File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks

2)Click the File and Printer Sharing button - put a check next to both options.

3)Reboot

4)Right-click on a drive/folder and choose sharing -- you can figure the setup out.. do that for every drive/folder you want to share (subdirectories are inherent)

Accessing a shared printer from another workstation:

1)Start->Settings->Printers

2)Add Printer -> Network Printer

3)Browse for printer on network off of the machine it is attached to (assuming it isn't on of those printers that acts a network station and your using a parallel connect) .. anyway, then pray the software works .. had some issues with HP software before when trying to get second machine to load drivers & software.

Goodluck, hope this helped.

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-zero~abYss