Re: Peer to peer wifi setup

From: Patrick Page (patspage_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/13/04 

Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 02:28:19 -0700

Thanks for your patience, Steve. The desktop has a simple DSL connection to
Verizon and a wireless adapter through which I want to give my laptop
internet access and be able to share files and printers. The laptop has a
wireless adapter and a disabled ethernet adapter. No router anywhere in the
picture. Both adapters are set to acquire IP addresses automatically. The
c: drives on both systems are set for simple file sharing. The laptop now
shows Node Type: Mixed; IP Routing enabled: No; WINS proxy enabled: No. 

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"Steve Winograd [MVP]" <winograd@pobox.com> wrote in message 
news:nhgak09r4q8erlip12e7795jmkgbt6s3pb@4ax.com...
| In article <e#MCUOVmEHA.3872@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl>, "Patrick Page"
| <patspage@hotmail.com> wrote:
| >>>>>I'm trying to network my desktop running XP HE SP2 (Dlink DWL G520 
PCI
| >>>>>Wireless adapter) with my laptop running XP HE SP1 (Atheros AR5004G 
wireless
| >>>>>adapter). The wireless adapters connect with excellent signal 
strength and
| >>>>>talk to each other, but I can't see any resources from either 
computer. The
| >>>>>desktop shows all its shared resources and the laptop in My Network 
Places;
| >>>>>the laptop shows only its own shared resources. The error messages 
indicate
| >>>>>the roadblock is administrator permission, but this is a ptop 
network. Help!
| >>>>>TIA!
| >|>
| >| >Ipconfig results:
| >| >
| >| >The desktop shows: Description: ...; Physical address: ...; DHCP 
enabled:
| >| >No; IP Address: 192.168.30.1; Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0; Default
| >Gateway:
| >| >( none shown)
| >| >
| >| >The notebook shows: Description: ...; Physical address: ...; Dhcp
| >enabled:
| >| >Yes; Auto configuration enabled: Yes; IP address:192.168.0.220 Subnet
| >Mask:
| >| >255.255.255.0; Default gateway: 192.168.0.1 Dhcp server: 192.168.0.1 
DNS
| >| >servers: 192.168.0.1 Lease obtained: ... Lease expires: ...
| >| >
| >| >I hope the above gives you some clues. Many thanks!
| >|
| >| If the IP addresses that you listed are right, they're causing the
| >| problem.  With a 255.255.255.0 subnet mask, 192.168.30.1 and
| >| 192.168.0.1 are in different subnets. so the computers can't
| >| communicate with each other.
| >|
| >| Ipconfig on the desktop shows that the IP address was assigned
| >| manually.  I recommend changing it to assign an IP address
| >| automatically.  Then, the desktop will get a 192.168.0.x IP address
| >| just like the notebook, and they'll be able to communicate.
| >
| >New ipconfig results: The desktop shows:
| >Description: ...; Physical address: ...; DHCP enabled:  Yes;
| >Autoconfiguration enabled: Yes; IP Address: 4.11.130.172;  Subnet Mask:
| >255.255.248.0; Default Gateway: 4.11.128.1; DHCP Server: 209.244.7.5; DNS
| >Servers 4.2.2.65 4.2.2.5 4.2.2.6; Lease obtained: ...
|
| It seems that I don't understand your setup, Patrick.
|
| The desktop has a public IP address assigned by Verizon DSL.  The
| laptop has a private IP address assigned by an Internet sharing device
| of some sort -- it could be a home broadband router, or it could be
| that the desktop has enabled Internet Connection Sharing on a DSL
| connection.
|
| Does the desktop have more than one network connection? What exactly
| appears in the Network Connections folder?  Is there a wireless one
| (connecting to the laptop) and a wired and/or PPPoE one (connecting to
| DSL)?
|
| Do you have a wireless router?   If so, how does each computer connect
| to it: wired or wireless?
|
| Do you have an external DSL modem?  If so, what does it plug into?  If
| it plugs into a home broadband router, make sure that it's plugged
| into the router's WAN (Internet) port, not into a LAN port.
| -- 
| Best Wishes,
| Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)
|
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| for everyone to see.  I'm sorry, but I don't answer questions
| addressed directly to me in E-mail or news groups.
|
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