Another router question

[AkamaiAloha]

Two Linksys routers uplinked together, one is has wireless access point ability (Router2) the other one (Router1) does not. Router1 (no wireless ability) is plugged directly into the cable modem. Router2 (the wireless AP) is uplinked.

The two routers are on different subnets. Router1 is 192.168.1.1, Router2 is 192.168.3.1.

The problem: Router1 is located in the office and is part of their office network. Router2 is for customers to use wireless internet access. In the clients office, he has a printer that he would like to be able to use with his laptop, The problem is that it cannot see any computers on that network, via network neighborhood, or when I try to provide the path via the printer setup in XP.

Other variables:

1) The printer with the printer attached can be pinged from the wireless access point, just not browsed in windows. I can also ping both routrs, and administer them from a wireless connection.

2) All the windows firewalls in the equation have been turned off, just to rule them out as the problem.

3) Router2 has it's default gateway as router1, since it is the router connected directly to the internet. It made sense for me to do this, but I don't know if this could technically be part of the problem, so I thought I'd add it in there.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions

 

[AkamaiAloha]

Just so there is no confusion, number one was supposed to read:

1) The COMPUTER with the printer attached can be pinged from the wireless access point.

Sorry about that.

 

[awbbar]

make a folder on the pc with the printer and share it.
search(start--search) for computer by ipaddress double click and seee if you can se any shared resources on pc.
If you do you should see printer.

It may be that you have to go deper in the sharing/ security or confure your router to have printer/pc
to be out side firewall or make a route to your pc with printer.
Its pretty easy to do with experience but lengthy to explain.
it may be cheaper and quicker for you to purchase another inexpensive wireless router and add it to same netowrk as
office, make it more secure/different channels. when they want to print they could join that network or they could use it as their default wireless connection.

 

[AkamaiAloha]

With 10 years of POS/Windows networking experience, you'd think I would have tried this--but I will swallow my pride and admit it for the purposes of helping anyone else with a similar problem. Awbbar, we were both on the same track, figuring raw ip was the way to go. The drive of the host computer sharing the computer was already shared, but the clincher was two little characters before the ip address in the URL--which were " \\ " ... in other words, typing \\192.168.0.1 was critical, as a UNC path, as opposed to simply typing the address. At that point, it connected to the pc, and the printer was able to be installed.

Thanks for the replies!