I have achieved a wireless link to the Web on my W2K-SP4 laptop
through an external DSL Broadband modem and Linksys Wireless Router
connected to my XP Pro-SP2 desktop.

These two computers have the following static I.P.'s assigned:-

Desktop:- 192.168.0.200
DSL modem:-192.168.1.1
Router:- 192.168.0.1
Laptop:- 192.168.0.199

The d/t is named DTOP
The laptop ltop1
Both are members of the same workgroup which is named WORKGROUP

The result of " pinging " these two in cmd.exe is as follows:-

DTOP PING

DSL (I.P.) OK
Router(I.P.) OK
DTOP(using name) OK
DTOP(I.P.) OK

ltop1 PING

DTOP(using name) "not recognised"
DTOP(I.P.) " timed out "
Router(I.P.) " timed out "
DSL (I.P.) OK
ltop1(using name) OK
ltop1(I.P.) OK

When I attempt to enable ICS on the laptop it warns me that doing this
will assign the I.P. 192.168.0.1

As this I.P. has already been assigned to the Router I have not
enabled ICS on the laptop so far as I am reluctant to upset the
successful wireless link which was achieved after considerable effort
!!

As neither the DTOP or the ltop1 are "seeing" each other I assume this
networking has failed.

Can anyone explain the failure of some of the "ping" attempts here and
, hopefully , tell me how I can effect file and printer shares between
these two machines , please ?

B.N.


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First forget about ICS that's what the router is doig already. Second get
rid of that pain in the ass firewall on the XP pro-SP2 desktop, that is
also a function of the router. Third make sure to use at minimum TKIP
wireless encryption between the router and laptop.

On Sun, 05 Jun 2005 09:12:49 -0400, "TweetyB" <Tweety@OnThe.net>
wrote:

Thanks for the reply.

OK- I'll forget about ICS.

The XP firewall was and still is disconnected as is ZONE Alarm on both
machines.

Since my original post I've tried using automatically allocated I.P's
and these now are as follows:-


Desktop:- 192.168.0.101
DSL modem:-192.168.1.1
Router:- 192.168.0.1
Laptop:- 192.168.0.100

The d/t is named DTOP
The laptop ltop1
Both are members of the same workgroup which is named WORKGROUP

The result of " pinging " these two in cmd.exe is as follows:-

DTOP PING

DSL (I.P.) OK
Router(I.P.) OK
DTOP(using name) OK
DTOP(I.P.) OK
ltop1 OK
192.168.0.100 OK

ltop1 PING

DTOP(using name) "unknown host"
DTOP(I.P.) OK
Router(I.P.) OK
DSL (I.P.) OK
ltop1(using name) OK
ltop1(I.P.) OK

When I navigate from the laptop from M.N.P , I eventuallu see "ltop1"
only displayed in the WORKGROUP

When I navigate similarly from the desktop I only see "WORKGROUP" and
nothing else.

I have "Netbios Over TCP/IP" selected on both machines.

It would seem that , by changing to automatic IP allocation I have
improved the "ping" results except for the failure to recognise the
name "DTOP" from the laptop "ping"

B.N.



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