can not network my laptop with my home network

[Neil]

Hello and Hafa Adai from Guam,



Hope someone out there can help. I can not get my new HP Pavilion lap top to
connect with my home network.



We have two desk tops both running Windows XP SP2 that are networked
together that shared a cable internet connection thru a Linksys router.
Works great.



Recently purchased the laptop with WLAN, replaced the router with a Linksys
Wireless-G Broad Band Router wrt54g. Both desktops networking and internet
connection still work fine and the laptop is able to connect to the internet
wirelessly but nothing I've tried will connect the laptop to the LAN. Tried
running the wizard on all computers, cables are all good even took the
wireless router out and put back the old one hooking the laptop in using a
cable and still nothing. One of the desktops after trying to set up the
network using cables will show the laptop in the 'view workgroup computers'
but that is it. Can not open it. Just get a do not have permissions
error. Is there something I'm missing? Can it be firewalls? What should
they be set at? Thought that the wizard took car of setting the firewalls.



Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

 

[Lem]

Hello and Hafa Adai from Guam,



Hope someone out there can help. I can not get my new HP Pavilion lap top to
connect with my home network.



We have two desk tops both running Windows XP SP2 that are networked
together that shared a cable internet connection thru a Linksys router.
Works great.



Recently purchased the laptop with WLAN, replaced the router with a Linksys
Wireless-G Broad Band Router wrt54g. Both desktops networking and internet
connection still work fine and the laptop is able to connect to the internet
wirelessly but nothing I've tried will connect the laptop to the LAN. Tried
running the wizard on all computers, cables are all good even took the
wireless router out and put back the old one hooking the laptop in using a
cable and still nothing. One of the desktops after trying to set up the
network using cables will show the laptop in the 'view workgroup computers'
but that is it. Can not open it. Just get a do not have permissions
error. Is there something I'm missing? Can it be firewalls? What should
they be set at? Thought that the wizard took car of setting the firewalls.



Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

The wizard can't deal with third-party firewalls, which hp probably
installed by default on your new laptop. This also may include some
antivirus apps (e.g., Norton) that have "Internet Worm Protection." If
you have third-party firewall software, configure it to allow the Local
Area Network traffic as trusted. You can do this with an IP range. Ex.
would be 192.168.1.0-192.168.1.254, which should be the default for your
WRT54G.

 

[Neil]

BINGO!

THANKS LEM!

The wizard can't deal with third-party firewalls, which hp probably
installed by default on your new laptop. This also may include some
antivirus apps (e.g., Norton) that have "Internet Worm Protection." If
you have third-party firewall software, configure it to allow the Local
Area Network traffic as trusted. You can do this with an IP range. Ex.
would be 192.168.1.0-192.168.1.254, which should be the default for your
WRT54G.

--
Lem MS MVP -- Networking

To the moon and back with 64 Kbits of RAM and 512 Kbits of ROM.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer

 

[Lem]

BINGO!

THANKS LEM!

Thanks for letting us know. Glad you got things working -- and also
glad to see there's high speed internet availability in Guam. As winter
approaches here in the NE USA mainland (54F and rainy at 1:00 pm EDT in
NYC; 37F last night), retiring to someplace warm looks better & better.

 

[Guest]

Lem> The wizard can't deal with third-party firewalls, which hp probably

installed by default on your new laptop. This also may include some
antivirus apps (e.g., Norton) that have "Internet Worm Protection." If
you have third-party firewall software, configure it to allow the Local
Area Network traffic as trusted. You can do this with an IP range. Ex.
would be 192.168.1.0-192.168.1.254, which should be the default for your
WRT54G.

I have almost the exact same situation as Neil, except I am not in beautiful
Guam.

Three machines on wireless network (all Linksys adapters and router/access
point)
I have two PC running XP Home, I have IBM Laptop running XP Pro. All running
McAfee AV no Mc Firewall installed. All set up with Win NetWizard.

Laptop can access both PC shared files, PC can both access each other.

Neither PC can access Laptop. Message is.... Logon Failure..... access
denied,

I do not use 3rd party firewall (I use Windows Firewall and Linksys access
point firewall).

I have already tried.........
uninstalled McAfee antivirus on laptop
turned off Windows firewall on laptop
updating firmware for router
I have Windows Firewall exception for local file/print sharing, and ports
139 and 445 set to allow 192.168.1.xxx listed for my network IP addresses.

What other suggestion can you offer ?

I also tried the tips on the winhlp/wnhxt template with no luck/success.

 

[Wally from Maryland]

I had simular problem the other week and the Linksys IT was knowledgable,
easily understood and had me up and running in about a half hour.
Wally

 

[Guest]

Thank you Wally.....I was beginning to wonder if it was a Linksys related
issue.

I will post if and when solved.