wireless laptop, WAP11 (Access Point), BEFSR41, cannot access shares?

[djeddiej]

Hello -

I've been snooping around google and here for a solution, but I cannot seem to find one - hopefully someone can help me out.

I am connected to the internet with a cable modem, through a Linksys BEFSR41 router. My wired network computers can access the network and each other's shared folders successfully - even on my main server, which has a configured Norton Personal Firewall.

Connected to this Linksys router is a linksys Wireless Access point (WAP11, latest BIOS) to which I have connected a Toshiba Laptop with Win XP Pro and a D-Link DWL 650+ Wireless Access PCMCIA card. The WAP's IP is DHCP configured by the router, but does not change (locked at 192.168.l.104) and the laptop is then configured through it (it has an address of 192.168.1.101 according to the router). The laptop can access the Internet just fine, but times out when trying to access any network folders from other computers. The messages that are returned include

"(Machine) is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions."

and may state some varying sentence afterward such as

"The network connection was aborted by the local system."

"The operation timed out"

"The I/O operation has been aborted because of either a thread exist or an application request".

etc.

I have tried to make the laptop have a static network IP a(i.e. 192.168.1.10, with a subnet of 255.255.255.0 and gateway of my router's IP address of 192.168.1.x) but that does not seem to work.

I have also tried to connect to my other computers from the wireless laptop using \\192.1698.x.x\ (IP address) \\computername and going through My Network Places (my laptop runs win XP Pro). In all instances, I have tested it in both firewall enabled (Norton firewall on the network share computer is turned on) or disabled.

I am getting frustrated by this!!! Any advice tips, links, turorials etc. would be appreciated.

Thanks

Edward




Edward J. Apostol
Web Application Development Programmer
Toronto, ON Canada

 

[bcastner]

Usually Steve Winograd's setup instuctions can resolve the issue:

http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/xp_filesharing/index.htm

Notes:

. Workgroup name identical, computer name unique, all machines
. No blank or empty passwords. Logon at all workstations with username and passwords.
. username and passwords of computer A, made local users with identical username and passwords on computer B; and so on for all machines in the workgroup.
. Disabling Zone Alarm, Norton IS, and other firewall products does not do the job. They must be configured to accept your local LAN as a trusted zone, and pass all traffic including Netbios and broadcast traffic.
. Watch out for "hidden" firewalls in antivirus products. PC-Illan is notorious for this but is not alone.

 

[djeddiej]

Hi -


Notes:

. Workgroup name identical, computer name unique, all machines
Checked, Checked, and checked.

. No blank or empty passwords. Logon at all workstations with username and passwords.
That is arranged.


. username and passwords of computer A, made local users with identical username and passwords on computer B; and so on for all machines in the workgroup.
Yup.

. Disabling Zone Alarm, Norton IS, and other firewall products does not do the job. They must be configured to accept your local LAN as a trusted zone, and pass all traffic including Netbios and broadcast traffic.
In response to this, I recently re-enabled Netbios data from ports 137-139 to be accepted specifically from internal addresses only. (and the specific computers to boot)

. Watch out for "hidden" firewalls in antivirus products. PC-Illan is notorious for this but is not alone.
I am just running Norton Personal Firewall on the server, and the Linksys router has its native firewall (configured beforehand)

Again, the situation is that when all computers are on the WIRED network, everybody surfs the net and sees their shares. When the wireless laptop comes in through the Access Point, surfing is available, but sharing is not. Does it perhaps have to do with encryption? I checked out IPCONFIG from a command prompt on the laptop in wireless mode, and got this response:

...
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . :fe80::280:c8ff:feb6:f9c7%6
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1

Tunnel adapter Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 3ffe:831f:4004:1952:0:f9f0:bece:a061
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : fe80::5445:5245:444f%5
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : ::

Tunnel adapter Automatic Tunneling Pseudo-Interface:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . my domain)
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . :fe80::5efe:192.168.1.101%2
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

I am supposing that the addreses are in hex for a reason?
Anyway, I will look into it again and see if there are any further issues.

Edward J. Apostol
Web Application Development Programmer
Toronto, ON Canada

 

[bcastner]

You are trying to mix IPv4 and IPv6.

Remove this Windows optional download:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...82-8CE6-4739-97C0-1A52A6F005E4&displaylang=en