Networking Problems

[34534534534555]

Hello.

I have 1 PC XP Home (fat) , 1 PC XP Pro (ntfs) , 1 MAC OSX.

I have a Dlink router and a dlink wireless pci card in the PC XP Pro machine. The PC XP Home machine is ethernet to the router. The MAC is using air port. All are given IP using DHCP.

The XP Pro machine can see nothing. The MAC can only see the XP Home machine. The XP Home machine can see the XP Pro machine!! But, when i try to access it, i get: ...is not available. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the Administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions. The network path was not found. The XP Pro machine does have folders that are shared.

Can anyone tell me how to set this network up so that all machines can see one another? And share files and other resources. On all machines file and printer sharing is turned on.

Thanks in Advance.

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[ajaycmc]

first of all see the security previllages for xp os and other thing is that if u have wireless ethernet card then check whethter it support to router or not because your next machine is connected to router with lan cable.

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[ceh4702]

This might be a case where you dont have the right Protocols installed on all the machines. With networking all the devices directly connected to the router are one-hop connected. However, anything going wirelessly through the Wireless Access Point is 2 hop connected to the router through the wireless access point which requires an IP routable protocol. TCP will let you see the router but will not route to the other machines necesarily.

If you can avoid having 2 hops it makes things a lot easier. This is where I would have just purchased a Router with the WAP built into it.

I am a little unsure what the best answer is. Multiple solutions present themselves depending on the exact protocols used, and the settings in the identification tabs of the windows machines.

Try some networking sites or a forum specifically for networking. Here is a link:

http://www.homenethelp.com

Someone else may have some ideas.

Novel use to use SPX/IPX as a IP Routable Protocol.

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[34534534534555]

Thanks for your posts. I will try that forum. And continue to investigate and tinker!

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[brazielr]

I agree with the last comment. Make Sure of the following

-Protocols should be installed the same way on your computers
-Make sure in your TCP/IP options you have it set to DHCP and obtain automatically for everything.
-Run a Ipconfig /all in the dos prompt on both sytems and verify that everything is set up the same (Gateway,Subnet Mask.) Also make sure that the subnet are set the same except the last set ex. computer 1 = 100.0.25.1 computer 2 = 100.0.25.2
- After that ping the computers from each computer, if you get a reply then all that should be good.

- Important ** Make sure the user names are added in each computer. For example if you log on to computer 1 with the user name User22. make sure that the username "User22" is added into Computer 2, if not you will not be able to browse though the computer once you are connected.

If this does not work let me know

-Reggie

 

[franklin97355]

On the xp computer you need to explicitly share the folders and give other users rights to access them. Right click on the drive/folder and go to the sharing/security tab.

 

[34534534534555]

Thank you for your posts,

Reggie,

TCP/IP options on both PCs are set to DHCP auto. And DNS auto.
After running IP config, all settings are correct. IP's are incremented on each comp. subnet, gateways, dhcp, dns are same.

It does however, say Ip routing enabled : No Is this a problem? How do i turn it on? WINS proxy enabled: No also.

I have pinged each comp and i get a response with no loss of about 5ms. Ping will only work pinging IP, will not work if i ping comp name..

I have a folder on each computer that is shared. I cannot map a drive manually.

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