Network access through switch

[Guest]

PC and laptop run Vista Ultimate. Printer is hooked up to PC's parallel
port. Network is Laptop - wireless hub - switch - PC. I can't print or
share files, even with firewalls turned off.

How do you get the network to see beyond the switch? If I connect the PC to
the wireless hub via an ethernet cable, everything works fine.

 

[Michael A. Bishop \(MSFT]

Check to make sure that your "wireless hub" isn't actually a wireless
router. If it is, the switch should be plugged into the LAN side of the
wireless, with the WAN port going to the Internet connection.

 

[Guest]

Michael,

It is indeed a switch - Belkin 5-port Gigabit Switch F5D5141-5. I have
shared all files (everything) on both computers. Each computer proclaims:
You do not have permission..."

 

[Michael A. Bishop \(MSFT]

Yes, but I asked about your "wireless hub" -- the switch is a switch, that's
fine. Most consumer wireless access points are also routers.

But getting permission-denied errors is different from not being able to
reach the other computers. What feedback do you get if you click Diagnose
from the error dialog? Do you have a third-party firewall installed? Many
of those restrict their open ports to machines in the same subnet, which
would bring us back to the question of whether your AP is a router. In
order to enable sharing in that scenario, you would either need to put all
machines in the same subnet, or configure your firewalls to trust both
internal subnets.