having trouble with file sharing between wired and wireless laptop

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I have a linksys router WRT54G. I have one laptop running win xp home
connected to the router via a lan cable and two laptops (one with vista one
with xp) connected via wireless. All three computers are able to surf the
web. I figured out how to get some of the file sharing to work. Right now I
can see files on either of the wirelessly connected laptops from either of
the other two laptops, but I can't see files on the wire-connected laptop
from either of the wireless-connected laptops. Somebody i talked to before
mentioned a setting on the router to get the wireless and the wired devices
to play nice, but i can't seem to find anything in the settings that looks
like that. Any advice? Also, firewalls are turned off on all three laptops,
that seemed to be the sticking point. So, file sharing enabled at the
expense of not having a firewall.

So, any idea what i'm missing i.e. what do i need to do to be able to see
the files on the wired laptop from the other two laptops?

 

[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

I have a linksys router WRT54G. I have one laptop running win xp home
connected to the router via a lan cable and two laptops (one with vista one
with xp) connected via wireless. All three computers are able to surf the
web. I figured out how to get some of the file sharing to work. Right now I
can see files on either of the wirelessly connected laptops from either of
the other two laptops, but I can't see files on the wire-connected laptop
from either of the wireless-connected laptops. Somebody i talked to before
mentioned a setting on the router to get the wireless and the wired devices
to play nice, but i can't seem to find anything in the settings that looks
like that. Any advice? Also, firewalls are turned off on all three laptops,
that seemed to be the sticking point. So, file sharing enabled at the
expense of not having a firewall.

So, any idea what i'm missing i.e. what do i need to do to be able to see
the files on the wired laptop from the other two laptops?

I haven't seen a setting on any router that determines whether
wireless and wired devices can share files with each other.

Run the Network Setup Wizard (in Start > All Programs > Accessories >
Communications) on the wire-connected laptop. 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.

If that doesn't solve the problem, start the wire-connected laptop in
"Safe mode with networking" and see if the other computers can see its
files. If they can, the problem in normal mode is almost certainly
due to a misconfigured firewall program on the wire-connected laptop.
To find out for sure, un-install (don't just disable) the firewall
program on the wire-connected laptop.

Note that some antivirus programs (such as Norton Antivirus 2007) have
a firewall component (such as Norton's "Internet Worm Protection")
that has to be configured to allow file sharing.
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[Jim]

I have a linksys router WRT54G. I have one laptop running win xp home
connected to the router via a lan cable and two laptops (one with vista
one
with xp) connected via wireless. All three computers are able to surf the
web. I figured out how to get some of the file sharing to work. Right now
I
can see files on either of the wirelessly connected laptops from either of
the other two laptops, but I can't see files on the wire-connected laptop
from either of the wireless-connected laptops. Somebody i talked to before
mentioned a setting on the router to get the wireless and the wired
devices
to play nice, but i can't seem to find anything in the settings that
looks
like that. Any advice? Also, firewalls are turned off on all three
laptops,
that seemed to be the sticking point. So, file sharing enabled at the
expense of not having a firewall.

So, any idea what i'm missing i.e. what do i need to do to be able to see
the files on the wired laptop from the other two laptops?

If turning off the firewall solved the problem, then it would certainly seem
that you have not setup these programs correctly.
In particular, the firewalls may not be passing ICMP packets.

Hence, with the firewalls turned on, can you ping the other computers from
each one?

Jim

 

[Chuck [MVP]]

I have a linksys router WRT54G. I have one laptop running win xp home
connected to the router via a lan cable and two laptops (one with vista one
with xp) connected via wireless. All three computers are able to surf the
web. I figured out how to get some of the file sharing to work. Right now I
can see files on either of the wirelessly connected laptops from either of
the other two laptops, but I can't see files on the wire-connected laptop
from either of the wireless-connected laptops. Somebody i talked to before
mentioned a setting on the router to get the wireless and the wired devices
to play nice, but i can't seem to find anything in the settings that looks
like that. Any advice? Also, firewalls are turned off on all three laptops,
that seemed to be the sticking point. So, file sharing enabled at the
expense of not having a firewall.

So, any idea what i'm missing i.e. what do i need to do to be able to see
the files on the wired laptop from the other two laptops?

Frank,

What you're talking about is "Isolation Mode" aka "VLAN", which separates all
ports (not just Ethernet from WiFi). I don't recall it being a feature on the
WRT54G, maybe it got added on the newer versions, I know it's a sought after
feature with DD-WRT and other third party firmware. What version WRT54G do you
have?

Excepting possible isolation mode, a NAT router such as the WRT54G has nothing
but a switch connecting the Ethernet and WiFi ports. No firewall there.

Or are you maybe thinking about the NetBT setting?
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2006/07/advanced-windows-networking-using.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2006/07/advanced-windows-networking-using.html

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