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I want to hurt someone.

So, we are entering Hour Seven of the Networking Nightmare. At this point, I have gotten the desktop to respond, and I have the LAN connection working.* However, I do not have the laptop working. Basically, I can see the folder I need to get to on the desktop, but can't get the laptop to show it. I am enormously frustrated. I can't figure out what I did differently on the desktop to make it work. I just don't get it.

At least I have made a little bit of process. Maybe by Hour Nine I will have both computers working. Then I get to configure the old, old desktop. I'm sure that'll be loads of fun and entirely stress-free.

In other, happier news, my music hunch was right and Kris Delmhorst is great fun. Finding the cd was hard - thank you e-bay - but I love this music. And the laptop has great speakers. If I could get it to transfer my files, I'd be entirely thrilled with it.



*Jim - I had to disable every firewall I came across. After I did that, the connection started working, hypothetically speaking. I haven't actually managed to share any folders yet.