Problem establishing peer-to-peer network

[ecjking]

I'm beside myself with frustration with the following problem. I have a simple W2K peer-to-peer network, with one gateway machine with a cable modem on its NIC, which is shared with a client machine (using W2K ICS) over a pair of Buffalo wireless LAN cards.

On the client machine, I have one W2K installation where this works absolutely perfectly, so there's no hardware issues, and the network settings on the gateway machine are presumably fine and shouldn't be changed). However, I need a second clean copy of W2K, which I have installed in a separate partition. Try as I might, when I've booted into that copy I can't see the gateway computer over the wireless network, let alone share the Internet connection.

First I ensured that the Buffalo card is configured exactly the same as in the working W2K copy on the same machine, with the same channel as the gateway machine and set to peer-to-peer mode. Then I tried configuring TCP/IP for the wireless connection on the second W2K on the client exactly like the working W2K copy on the same machine -- ie, set to obtain the IP address automatically. When this didn't work, I manually configured TCP/IP. The details of the gateway and client machine settings are below. They are definitely in the same workgroup, and have different machine names.

Nevertheless, neither machine can see each other on the Network. There's no network activity on the client machine at all -- the lights in the taskbar tray icon never flashes at all. What am I doing wrong???

Thanks

Ed

GATEWAY:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

CLIENT

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : eking
Primary DNS Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Broadcast
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

Ethernet adapter Wireless LAN:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : MELCO WLI-PCM-L11 Wireless LAN Adapter
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-02-2D-05-73-90
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.254
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . :

 

[ecjking]

Oh dear... no replies... I guess that means everyone else is as stumped by my problem as I am :-(

 

[Tels]

Have you tried pinging?

I get the impression that the wireless cards are the 'weak link' so to speak, is there any way of verifying that they work?

(in fact I'm sure - if the IP addresses are configured manually like that there should be no problems in pinging the other address, but I would use 192.168.0.2 istead of 254)

Good luck, let me know how you get on.... try and narrow the problem down.. @If I think of ought else I'll post it.

 

[ecjking]

Thanks for the advice!

The hardware definitely does work, as the peer-to-peer link works perfectly when I simply boot into the original W2K installation on the same machine, leaving the gateway machine configured excatly the same.

That's the most frustrating thing -- the identical wireless cards, card settings, and TCP/IP settings work fine in the first W2K installation, but not at all in the second.

Ed

 

[aalmeida]

Am I understanding correctly your scenario?
You have a dual boot Win2K that share NIC, The First OS connects OK but the Seconnd does not Connect at all even though it has the same protocol configuration as the first one.
Is that right? if it is I would like to know: are the two sides using the same computer name? AL Almeida
NT/DB Admin
"May all those that come behind us, find us faithfull"

 

[ecjking]

That's exactly right. I am indeed also using the same computer name for both OS installations on the dual-boot machine; the name of the other PC that I'm connecting to is different, of course.

Ed