Unable To Set Up Network

[Guest]

Alright, here it goes. I have a laptop and a PC both connected to a Linksys
router. The PC is connected to the router via CAT5 and the laptop connects
via wireless. I am unable to get these 2 machines to see each other on the
network. I have verifed that the workgroup names are the same, disabled or
un-installed any MS or third party firewall software, rebuilt the TCP/IP
stack on the PC as outlined in an article I found on ezlan, and made sure I
enabled sharing on the files/folders and the printer. I can connect to the
internet from both machines no problem. What gives? I thought this was going
to be easy?

 

[Guest]

Also, I am unable to load NetBEUI on my XPSP2 PC.

 

[Guest]

I thought this was going to be easy?

It's a *computer*, for God's sake. <G>


Seriously,

First, make sure you can ping from one to the other. Tip: If you don't know
what IP address has been assigned to the wireless one, use 'ipconfig /all' to
find out.

If ping works, then try establishing a connection with

net use Z: \\192.168.1.2\sharename

(Obviously replace the IP address and sharename with correct values)

If this works, try again, replacing the IP address with the computer's name.

You don't need NetBEUI on modern networks, and I'm not even sure if it will
work over wireless.

I would also suggest starting by connecting both computers by Cat5; once
you've got that working then switch to wireless.

An issue with wireless is its use of dynamic IP addresses; if the IP address
of the share-host changes then there will be an interval (typically 10-30min)
in which the client can no longer find it. For wired PCs you can assign a
static IP, but for wireless it's better to associate an IP address and MAC on
the router's DHCP control-panel for any computer that hosts shares. That way
the wireless computer can still be used on other networks, but will always
have the same IP on your own network.

Hope this helps.