Help needed with my wireless network

[Stephen Reid]

Hi

I have just encountered a bit of a strange problem with my wireless network
at home. I have 3 clients on my network - a PC, a laptop and a PDA. I am
using a wireless router/modem on ip 192.168.0.1

My PC has a static ip addres of 192.168.0.2 and the laptop and PDA are given
dynamic ip addresses from the router which are usually 192.168.0.65 for the
PDA and 192.168.0.69 for the laptop.

The laptop is used more in the office and is setup to be part of the office
domain 'ABC'. My home PC also has a workgroup of ABC (not sure if this is
doing anything?).

Up until today I have no problems at all, however today I went to use remote
desktop on the laptop to control the PC and it didn't work. After
investigating further I noticed that I cant ping the laptop from the main pc
or vice versa. However, both the laptop and PC can ping the pda or router.
Both seem perfectly on the network other than the fact they cant seem to see
each other.

The strange things was this was working yesterday and as far as I am aware I
have only used either of them for surfing since.

I hope someone can help as I am completely baffled with this.

Thanks in advance
Stephen

 

[carthell]

Hi
Up until today I have no problems at all, however today I went to use remote
desktop on the laptop to control the PC and it didn't work. After
investigating further I noticed that I cant ping the laptop from the main pc
or vice versa. However, both the laptop and PC can ping the pda or router.
Both seem perfectly on the network other than the fact they cant seem to see
each other.

The strange things was this was working yesterday and as far as I am aware I
have only used either of them for surfing since.

I hope someone can help as I am completely baffled with this.

If there's a firewall on the laptop and/or PC, disable & test via ping.
If everything works, experiment with the firewall settings until you
fix your problem.

If any of the laptops run XP (don't know whether the windows firewall
is present in earlier versions), there are settings that allow the
"remote desktop" function to work. Go to the control panel, select
"windows firewall", select the "exceptions" tab, and check off the box
next to "remote desktop".

Thanks in advance
Sure.

Stephen

-d