Home Networking

[Steph128]

I have a user who wants to be able to print from his wireless laptop. He has a linksys router and the home pc is recognizing the laptop as part of a home network. I cannot get the laptop to recognize the home pc so that he can print. Suggestions??

 

[edfair]

File and print sharing enabled?

 

[Steph128]

Yes it is enabled. The problem lies in the fact that I can't get the laptop to recognize the pc.

 

[G0AOZ]

Bit more info required, I think... Operating systems on both machines? Firewalls? Does PING work? NetBEUI? Are both PCs connecting to the Internet ok?

ROGER - G0AOZ.

 

[Steph128]

Both PC's are running XP Pro, both are connecting to the internet correctly, the firewall on the laptop is from trend micro the one on the home pc is the windows firewall. Ping is functioning within normal parameters.

 

[edfair]

Might be time to run ipreset on the pc. Quirky things like this can sometimes be cured with this program.
Can't recall the specifics of the command line, try a google search for it.

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[G0AOZ]

Try Ed's suggestion first, then if no joy knock off both firewalls temporarily and see if that helps. Maybe Trend Micro needs to allow outward access to the networked printer...?

ROGER - G0AOZ.

 

[edfair]

Also have had some success in the past with earlier OSs by killing the adapter and letting the network be rebuilt. But that was also on an OS that killed tcpip when the adapter went away. XP is different as the IP portion can't be deleted. But a combination of deleting the adapter and resetting IP will accomplish the same thing.

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[Steph128]

Tried it and still no go. One thing that I did forget to mention is that the laptop is associated with the server at work. Would that have an impact or not??

 

[G0AOZ]

Could do, depends on settings...

1. Are both machines on the same workgroup?

2. Static IPs or using DHCP?

3. "Ping is functioning within normal parameters.". I presume you must be able to ping IPs on the WAN and also the router's IP. But not the IP of the HOME PC? Is that right?

4. Tried running NETBEUI? That might help "find" the other PC.


ROGER - G0AOZ.

 

[Steph128]

The laptop is associated with the server at work. The home pc is not. When the laptop is disconnected from the wireless network at work it cannot reach anything on that network. The laptop is using DHCP and I believe that the home pc is as well. The router was configured correctly. I ran the wireless network setup on both computers. Configured the router accordingly. Ran the network setup wizard on the home pc and plugged in the settings manually. The laptop does not have the option to run the network setup wizard under the control panel. Only the wireless network wizard. If any of this helps let me know.