File sharing between wireless and ethernet - Wireless
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I'm having trouble getting my computers to see each other.
I have a wireless router (DLink DI-624) into which I have connected my cable
modem and my desktop computer both by ethernet cable. I also have my laptop
connected ...
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File sharing between wireless and ethernet
Hi,
I'm having trouble getting my computers to see each other.
I have a wireless router (DLink DI-624) into which I have connected my cable
modem and my desktop computer both by ethernet cable. I also have my laptop
connected to the internet through through the wireless side of the router.
I can't however seem to get my computers to recognize that the other is
there. Both are recognized by the router and I have set both of them up
through the network connection wizard to be in the "home" workgroup.
Can anyone please help me?
Thanks
Dan
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RE: File sharing between wireless and ethernet
Hi Daniel,
You seem to have a very similar problem to the one I'm having (see my post
two down from yours). However, at least my wireless computers are able to
communicate.
One of the problems I had to begin with was the firewall on all the wireless
computers. Make sure you add the IP addresses of your computers to the
trusted zone on both your firewalls.
Hope that helps somewhat,
Mari-Anne in Montana
"Daniel L" wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having trouble getting my computers to see each other.
>
> I have a wireless router (DLink DI-624) into which I have connected my cable
> modem and my desktop computer both by ethernet cable. I also have my laptop
> connected to the internet through through the wireless side of the router.
>
> I can't however seem to get my computers to recognize that the other is
> there. Both are recognized by the router and I have set both of them up
> through the network connection wizard to be in the "home" workgroup.
>
> Can anyone please help me?
>
> Thanks
>
> Dan
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Re: File sharing between wireless and ethernet
"Daniel L" L@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BE9EB30C-CAF0-471D-A036-2AF7BD0A790E@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
>
> I'm having trouble getting my computers to see each other.
>
> I have a wireless router (DLink DI-624) into which I have connected my
> cable
> modem and my desktop computer both by ethernet cable. I also have my
> laptop
> connected to the internet through through the wireless side of the router.
>
> I can't however seem to get my computers to recognize that the other is
> there. Both are recognized by the router and I have set both of them up
> through the network connection wizard to be in the "home" workgroup.
>
> Can anyone please help me?
>
> Thanks
>
> Dan
Something is blocking ICMP packets on both of the computers. A
misconfigured firewall is the usual problem.
Jim
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Re: File sharing between wireless and ethernet
On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 12:40:01 -0800, Daniel L L@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm having trouble getting my computers to see each other.
>
>I have a wireless router (DLink DI-624) into which I have connected my cable
>modem and my desktop computer both by ethernet cable. I also have my laptop
>connected to the internet through through the wireless side of the router.
>
>I can't however seem to get my computers to recognize that the other is
>there. Both are recognized by the router and I have set both of them up
>through the network connection wizard to be in the "home" workgroup.
>
>Can anyone please help me?
>
>Thanks
>
>Dan
What version of Windows do the computers have?
If they have Windows XP:
1. Run the Network Setup Wizard (in Start > All Programs > Accessories
> Communications) on each computer. If the Wizard detects the
router's shared Internet connection, tell the Wizard to use that.
Otherwise, tell the Wizard that the computer connects to the Internet
through a residential gateway. Tell the Wizard to enable File and
Printer Sharing.
2. Configure any firewall program to allow access by other computers
on the local area network. Note that some antivirus programs, such as
Norton and PC-cillin, have firewall components that have to be
configured.
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