Trying to set up a home network?

im trying to set up a home network so the four computers at my house can share files and all print to one printer. We already have the wirless internet working for everyone and every computer execpt for the main station can share files. The main station is the most important since we want to be able to use the printer from our laptops but for some reason everytime i try to see the files from that computer i get an error message saying it cant communicate. My laptop is seeing that its there it just cant communicate. I can see files from my laptop from the main station computer but not the other way around. I have turned firewalls and all virus protection off but still no luck. whats wrong?

Trying to set up a home network?suzuki

you need to set up file sharing on your pc , and also you need to ensure that all your computers are in the same workgroup. you can do this by going into control panel system, click on system and a dialogue box will come up click on the tab network identification, click on properties and go to the bottom tab and name your workgroup, youll be prompted to reboot, make sure you do this on all your pcs and stick to the same name throughout., hope that helps

oops nearly forgot to share a printer right click on the printer and click on the sharing tab, a little hand will appear on the printer once youve done this, then you need to tell your laptops that there is a shared printer on the network, you can do this by going programs\printer\add printer, were it says add network printer, click next, it will ask you for a disk so it can copy the printer drivers to the laptop, just follow the prompts, hopefully it should work, hope it does for ya

Trying to set up a home network?virus

check domain name for the same and then u see computers which u wanna to see
Try this http://www.networkmagic.com/.

my network was driving me nuts. i d/l this and it was so easy.

hope this helps
Check you dont have any passwords that are stopping you.
You may want to check the folder security on the shared folder. Make sure there is an entry for everyone, and give it full control. Also see if you can ping the main computer from the other computers. You should be able to if you can see the laptops files from the main server.