Re: Home Networking Difficulties

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Hi Chuck,

Thanks for the quick post. My ISP provides Shaw Secure which is a
firewall/antivirus suite. It is possibly by F-Secure as far as I can tell.
I am running it on both computers. With regards to the NAT router as my DNS
server, I'm not sure about performance. Is there a better way to specify
this? I don't know what all this stuff does.

I'll look at the pages you suggest and see if it helps at all.

Philip
"Chuck" wrote:

> On Sun, 5 Jun 2005 18:31:02 -0700, "Philip Wright"
> <PhilipWright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >I am running Win XP Home Ver 2002 SP2 on a desktop and a wireless laptop. I
> >am using a D-Link wireless router which is wired to the desktop. I can
> >access the internet from both computers. I want to be able to file/print
> >share both computers.
> >
> >From the desktop, under the workgroup I can see both computers, but when I
> >click on the laptop, I get the following error:
> >"\\Kitchen 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. The network path was not found."
> >I cannot ping the laptop from the desktop.
> >
> >From the laptop, I can only the see laptop under the workgroup. However,
> >somehow I am able to access a shared folder on my desktop using the IP
> >address (can't remember how I did this). I can ping the desktop from the
> >laptop.
> >
> >I have disabled the Windows Firewall on both computers but am running a
> >firewall provided by my cable internet supplier. I have been reading some of
> >the newsgroups and the PChuck website. Following are the ipconfig, browstat,
> >and Cdiag for both computers.
> >
> >I hope that I haven't provided too much information. Thanks in advance for
> >any help/direction that I should try.
>
> <SNIP SNIP>
>
> Philip,
>
> A nicely done assembly of the three diagnostic tools, and not at all too much.
>
> I see just two symptoms:
> - Office can't access Kitchen (neither ping nor net view, by name or ip address
> - further defining your above statement).
> - Kitchen can't access the registry on Office from browstat, getting "error =
> 53" ("name not found").
>
> What is the firewall provided by your ISP, and what computer are you running it
> on? I think the problem starts with a firewall.
>
> I'm interested that you have specified your DNS server, from both computers, as
> your NAT router. Does the router provide adequate performance as a DNS server?
>
> Both Kitchen and Office are Node Type Unknown, which should use Broadcast for
> resolution, so the router DNS server only acts as an Internet address cache.
> <http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/address-resolution-on-lan.html>
>
> A firewall is the best possible candidate for this problem.
> <http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/your-personal-firewall-can-either-help.html>
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Chuck
> http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/
> Paranoia is not a problem - it's a normal response from experience.
> My email is AT DOT
> actual address pchuck sonic net.
>
.

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