got connected, finally
 

I'm finally connected and downloading that song by dirty vegas. Hopefullly the first of many.

To all of you who are still having problems, try going to the Advanced options of your network connection's Properties and disable the ICF, the Internet Connection Firewall. Also go to the Networking tab and make sure you have the boxes for file and printer sharing for microsoft networks and client for microsoft networks both checked.

And stop cussing in the forums. Just get savvy.

Enabling file and printer sharing won't have any effect at all except for your computer possibly being accessible from any host on the internet.

Either you don't really have a clue or you're trying to fool users into opening their computers for remote attackers.