Peer to peer setup problem

[Geoff Aukett]

Hi All,

I have recently purchased a Belkin Wirless Router and connected it to my
Cable Modem. I have connected my desktop machine to the router with std cat5
cable and have a belkin wireless card in my laptop. Both the desktop and the
laptop have Internet Access no problem but they cant see any of the shared
resourses on the network, the printer for example.

I have used the network setup wizard and all the settings apear to be
correct. It just does not work. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Geoff.

 

[Geoff Aukett]

Sorry I forgot to say XP Pro on the laptop and XP Home on the desktop.

Thanks Geoff.

 

[Guest]

Hi Geoff,
Just to get things straight, your setup is consisting of the following:
- one Desktop running Xp Home - cable connection to router
- one Laptop running Xp Pro - wireless connection to router
- one Router - cabel connection to modem
- one network printer - cable connection to router

If this is the case you should look into the configuration of LAN IP
adresses - eg. static or DHCP. Check the DHCP table on the router (if you use
DHCP) and see that all devices are listed. Try to ping the devices (use the
PING command from command promt)

If your printer is not at network printer eg. a printer with ethernet port
and printserver internally - but a printer connected to the Desktop computer,
there are some other issues to look into. First of all, I imagine that the
problem is that your wireless laptop cannot connect to the shared printer on
the Desktop computer and print. So you need to check if the to computers can
"see" each other in the first place. Again you can use the PING command to
see if there is connection. Ping the Desktop from the laptop (if you don't
know how to use the ping command, type ping ? in command promt). If you don't
get a reply on the ping's there is most likely an issue with the firewall
settings on the to computers.

Tell me what you found...

Cheers,
peter

First of

 

[Hans-Georg Michna]

I have recently purchased a Belkin Wirless Router and connected it to my
Cable Modem. I have connected my desktop machine to the router with std cat5
cable and have a belkin wireless card in my laptop. Both the desktop and the
laptop have Internet Access no problem but they cant see any of the shared
resourses on the network, the printer for example.

I have used the network setup wizard and all the settings apear to be
correct. It just does not work. Any help would be appreciated.

Geoff,

you can use http://www.michna.com/kb/wxnet.htm to solve this
problem.

Hans-Georg

 

[Geoff Aukett]

Hi Peter,

The setup is >
- one Desktop running Xp Home - cable connection to router
- one Laptop running Xp Pro - wireless connection to router
- one Router - cabel connection to modem
- one shared printer connected to the desktop

I can ping the laptop from desktop and vice versa, the router is acticng as
a DHCP server, I have shared drives on both machines but the laptop shows up
under microsoft windows network node when you expand windows explorer but
the desktop does not. When I try the same thing from the desktop mshome
shows up as the network name but when I click on it it says not accesible?

Thanks

Geoff.

 

[Guest]

Hi Goeff,
Hmm...I suppose you've placed the to pc's in the same workgroup?

I have shared drives on both machines...

- Ok, can you see the shares on both machines, but not the shared printer?
or can you only see the shares on the laptop? (sometimes there are issues
with sharing stuff on Xp Home - you might need to enable "easy filesharing"
on the xp pro since Home edition usually doesn't support the pro way of
sharing)

When I try the same thing from the desktop mshome
shows up as the network name but when I click on it it says not accesible?

- If you can only see shares on one machine check that firewall settings are
not preventing access - even windows firewall will cause this.

Cheers,
Peter