Connecting laptop to pc through home hub

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Gbaitey
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Connecting laptop to pc through home hub

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Hi there I have BT home hub and have got my main pc wired to the BT home hub and my laptop wireless, both work fine on the internet but I would also like my laptop to be able to connect to the other pc as the pc has a large hard drive and all my music stored on there.

I have tryed running the home network thing on both pc's but noticed when i do this the network controller is listed as unknown :confused: , surely both should know it's through bt's home hub eh ??????
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Post by picohat »

Ensure that the PC and labtop can ping each other, also allow file sharing on firewall if you enabled it on PC or labtop. Then take a look here on how to do simple file sharing or share file with user/group permissions.

Good luck..
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