Wireless Home Network

[Guest]

I have a two PC's running WinXP Home. I have a D-Link wireless Router, a
D-link Wireless Network Card in my Desktop PC and a D-Link Wireless Notebook
Adapter in my laptop. I have set up my Router using the D-Link Utilities
program to set up my network. Both PC's connect fine with the Router and both
have internet access through the router. I have shared all the necessary
folders on both PC's.

I run the Network Wizard to set up my home network and workgroup. I've run
the Wizard on my desktop, and copied the netsetup.exe onto a floppy disk.
I've then run the netsetup.exe on my laptop. My laptop also has an ethernet
socket, which I don't use because I've got a wireless adapter. During the
wizard, it tells me that I'm not connected to my network (through the
ethernet socket) and should select the option to ignored disabled network
connection. Why? I'm not using the Ethernet socket. My wireless connection
doesn't even show up in the list.

If I select the option and complete the wizard, my desktop PC can access
all the folders I've shard on my laptop. However, my desktop is not visible
from my laptop. If I go into My Network Places, and view workgroup computers,
my desktop shows up, but when I try to access it, I get a message saying that
it's not accessable, that I may not have permission to use this network
resource.

Can anybody shed light for me on how to fix it. I've even gone so far as to
uninstall all my network card drivers (on both PC's) and set up the network
from scratch without any luck.

(Unless, of course, it is one of those MS things where Bill Gates knows
better and is telling that what I'm trying to do is dumb, stupic, not the
right thing to do, I don't know what I'm doing and he'll decide what I want
to do.)

Please put me out of my mysery.

 

[Millybags]

Is there a good reason to wireless connect your desktop?
I would always used wired connections for desktops (ethernet).
Are your running a software firewall like Norton? If so, have you run the
network wizard in that?

Steve

 

[Patrick Keenan]

I have a two PC's running WinXP Home. I have a D-Link wireless Router, a
D-link Wireless Network Card in my Desktop PC and a D-Link Wireless Notebook
Adapter in my laptop. I have set up my Router using the D-Link Utilities
program to set up my network. Both PC's connect fine with the Router and both
have internet access through the router. I have shared all the necessary
folders on both PC's.

I run the Network Wizard to set up my home network and workgroup. I've run
the Wizard on my desktop, and copied the netsetup.exe onto a floppy disk.
I've then run the netsetup.exe on my laptop. My laptop also has an ethernet
socket, which I don't use because I've got a wireless adapter. During the
wizard, it tells me that I'm not connected to my network (through the
ethernet socket) and should select the option to ignored disabled network
connection. Why? I'm not using the Ethernet socket. My wireless connection
doesn't even show up in the list.

If I select the option and complete the wizard, my desktop PC can access
all the folders I've shard on my laptop. However, my desktop is not visible
from my laptop. If I go into My Network Places, and view workgroup computers,
my desktop shows up, but when I try to access it, I get a message saying that
it's not accessable, that I may not have permission to use this network
resource.

Can anybody shed light for me on how to fix it. I've even gone so far as to
uninstall all my network card drivers (on both PC's) and set up the network
from scratch without any luck.

Try adding the IPX/SPX and NetBIOS protocols to the laptop network adapter.
I've found that many systems cannot see each other without these. Right
click on the network adapter icon, choose Properties, then Install and
choose Protocol.

Sometimes you must also "help" Windows along by doing a search for the
computer name desired. Once you've done that and the machine has been
discovered, Windows should realize that it's there.

HTH
-pk

 

[Guest]

Steve:

The reason my desktop is wireless us because my network card is wireless - I
didn't want the hassle of wiring it.

Patrick:

I tried adding the protocol, but that made no difference. I tried searching
for it, but still go the message that I don't have permission to use this
network resource.

 

[Falcon]

Steve:

The reason my desktop is wireless us because my network card is wireless - I
didn't want the hassle of wiring it.

Patrick:

I tried adding the protocol, but that made no difference. I tried searching
for it, but still go the message that I don't have permission to use this
network resource.

Disable your firewall(s) (including the Windows firewall) on the
desktop and see if you can access the folders. If you can, it's a
firewall configuration problem.

 

[Guest]

Steve:

The reason my desktop is wireless us because my network card is wireless - I
didn't want the hassle of wiring it.

Patrick:

I tried adding the protocol, but that made no difference. I tried searching
for it, but still go the message that I don't have permission to use this
network resource.

It also appears to have something to do with my workgroup setup. Both are
part of the same workgroup, but my desktop doesn't show up if I view the
workgroup from my laptop, though both show if I view it from my desktop.

 

[Neil M]

I would try this...

reset your workgroups - what i mean is change their names to something else
then back again so you know it is definately setup (windows does have a
small problem with workgroup naming sometimes)

Next check your firewalls are disabled - just for now - then once you get
connected you can either add the laptop/pc to each firewall (software AND
hardware) or just add your network ip range.

On that note, check your IP range is the same and if your router is a DHCP
server check that your laptop is actually gaining a ip address for your
network

And lastly, I have found sometimes, not always though, it helps to create an
account the same for each machine, so make sure you have a admin account on
each xp machine for each other one (so if pc has an account called BOb make
sure their is a BOB account on the laptop) I have found this solves most xp
permission problems.

Also on another note, the lan adapter that comes up on the network wizard is
shown as its not plugged in - it says as the bottom the that window to
ignore disconnected devices, the reason why the wireless isn't shown is due
to it being enabled and working... phew, one last thing - you do not need
to run the wizard on floppy - just run the wizard for each machine so that
it is connected to a (gateway) router - do not create disk and viola!! all
should be fine

Hope this helps.... some of the info may or may not work for you, but I
have found that if I have any network problems any of the above normally get
the pc showing up under network neighbourhood (or network places) as well as
permission problems.

Regards,

Neil

 

[Guest]

Neil & Falcon,

It turned out to be the Windows Firewall on my Desktop. I disabled it, and
could access it from my laptop. I enabled it again and all is well now.

Thanks for your help!