Regardsenable NetBIOS over TCP/IP in the properties of IPv4, under the WINS tab, within the properties of your network interface card.
type
services.msc
into the search box and hit enter
confirm that the following services are started, consider setting the startup type to automatic
Computer Browser
Function Discovery Provider Host
Function Discovery Resource Publication
Network Connections
Network List Service
Network Location Awareness
Network Store Interface Service
Server
SSDP Discovery
TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper
Workstation
Nope, I am talking about Windows 7Thanks for replying, I did as you suggest with enable TCP/IP etc and with the services, although I don't have entries for Function Discovery and Network List or Store.I assume you're talking about XP here. I had Zone Alarm firewall which when updated seemed to be causing a problem so I did a system restore and everything worked apart from being able to access the Netbook from the win 7 desktop. I uninstalled Zone Alarm and installed Comodo, I also have Avast ant virus, but I think that's ok. Not sure what you mean by check the documentation for proper configuaration of trusts in network nodes.
Function Discovery Provider HostPublishes this computer and resources attached to this computer so they can be discovered over the network. If this service is stopped, network resources will no longer be published and they will not be discovered by other computers on the network.
Network List ServiceDiscovery (FD) network discovery providers. These FD providers supply network discovery services for the Simple Services Discovery Protocol (SSDP) and Web Services – Discovery (WS-D) protocol. Stopping or disabling the FDPHOST service will disable network discovery for these protocols when using FD. When this service is unavailable, network services using FD and relying on these discovery protocols will be unable to find network devices or resources.
Network Store Interface ServiceIdentifies the networks to which the computer has connected, collects and stores properties for these networks, and notifies applications when these properties change.
While XP and Win7 share similar services and some may be available in both OSs, The ones listed above are present in my Windows 7 Ultimate (64bit) installation but I can not say that they are present and available in all versions of Windows 7 and since you don't say specifically which Version of Windows 7 you are using I just provided a list of general services that may require attention and consideration.This service delivers network notifications (e.g. interface addition/deleting etc) to user mode clients. Stopping this service will cause loss of network connectivity. If this service is disabled, any other services that explicitly depend on this service will fail to start.
This is fine, that is what is suppose to happenI can ping the desktop using it's computer name and it returns an ip address.
This is not fine and because of this problem you will likely continue to have NetBIOS issues between the two machines.When I try to ping the netbook I get request timed out.
This is badNbtstat on netbook gives me local connection with 0s in the node address and wireless connection with a node ip address and a cache table with another ip address which it says is unique.
This is good.Nbtstat on desktop gives local connection with a node ip address of 192.168, etc, then there's a cache table with the netbook's name and ip address.
UNC means "Universal Naming Convention" and refers to at method of accessing network resources as I described above.I have set up a shared folder on each as suggested but can't see either.
I don't know what UNC means.I tried typing this into the command prompt with the format you gave but nothing happened.
yes, I can Ping desktop from netbook,I get 4 replies mentioning bytes,time and ttl.I can ping notebook from desktop and get 4 replies. Opening run and using ip address of netbook on the desktop gives me the network page with users share, but it's the folders on the desktop that I am sharing with the netbook.I can't access the netbook.Doing the same on the netbook I get the folders I am sharing with the desktop.
OK, that is as it should be.what comes up is 2 things, users folder and printer and faxes. The users folder contains all the shared files on the desktop.
ignore this
OK. I need to take a look at other potential issues. It looks to me like something (software) is blocking networking traffic and it's likely on the netbook, since you seem to be able to access the desktop from the netbook, but the netbook is not accepting inbound connections.After about 3 minutes of inactivity, I get a network error dialog box saying Windows cannot access \\192.168.1.64, check spelling etc.