Wireless Networking

defy_gravity · Post by **defy_gravity** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 3:51 pm

I picked up a wireless router and card for my PC and had a wireless card aleady in a laptop. Both the PC and laptop can get on the internet just fine via the wireless router.

The problem I'm having is how to properly share a drive and printer on the desktop so the laptop can print to it and transfer files. I did the right-click, share deal and the laptop doesn't see it. For that matter, it doesn't see the desktop machine at all. Anybody know any tricks for this? They both have the same workgroup name. I thought that was all they had to do.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 3:54 pm

Are they both on the same network? Does your router have firewall built in? Can you ping/tracert each other? Can you search for the machine name/IP address through whatever machine searching tool you have on you machine?

Octavious · Post by **Octavious** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 3:54 pm

Make sure they both have the same workgroup name right click on my compute, then go to properties, then go to the network ident tab and click on properties there it should say something like member of...switch it to workgroup and then name it the same thing on both computers. If that doesn't work make sure you can ping each computer. I would imagine that's what the problem is though.

Unless of course it's some strange wireless setting I don't know about. I haven't setup a wireless router yet so it very well might have something to do with that as well.

The Meal · Post by **The Meal** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 3:58 pm

This sounds like a question for General Computing. Hey, maybe I should make that my Halloween super-hero costume. Right now I'm stuck with going as SuperHiro and I doubt my gang will understand...

~Neal

Al · Post by Al » Mon Oct 18, 2004 4:07 pm

Oh. Workgroup. I forgot about that one. I bet you Crystal's laptop isn't in the same workgroup as your desktop.

Crap. You already thought of that. I'm out again.

defy_gravity · Post by **defy_gravity** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 4:08 pm

They can't ping each other. They are in the same workgroup though. I'll look further into whether there is another firewall running that I don't know about.

defy_gravity · Post by **defy_gravity** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 4:09 pm

Al wrote:Oh. Workgroup. I forgot about that one. I bet you Crystal's laptop isn't in the same workgroup as your desktop.

Crap. You already thought of that. I'm out again.

They just default to being in "workgroup" as the name.

tals · Post by **tals** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 4:16 pm

Have either of them got a software firewall in place - if so (and assuming that the router has a firewall) turn that off and see if they can then see each other. I assume they can both 'see' the router - i.e browse it if its web configuration?

Tals

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 4:18 pm

with no ping tracert is next.

gbasden · Post by **gbasden** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 5:37 pm

I would go to a DOS prompt and type ipconfig. I will guess that the IP address will be something like 192.168.1.1, and the subnet mask will be 255.255.255.0, and the default gateway should be like 192.168.1.254.

The IP addresses should not be the same, but they should be similar - ie. 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.1.2. The subnet mask DOES have to be identical, and the default gateway should be the same.

If the IP addressing looks right, check for a firewall. If you are running XP service pack 2, you have one. If you are running Zone Alarm, you have one. If you do, you will need to make an exception so that the traffic from the other computer can get through, or disable the firewall.

*Edit - forgot to add - if you need more indepth help, feel free to drop me an email.