Re: Home Networking Difficulties
- From: "grumbles50" <grumbles50@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 17:56:02 -0700
hi i found disabling antivius as well as renewing ip of one of the pc to be
helfull,but i can only get filesharing oneway,i can ping both pc,s and get a
reply.on one pc under local area connection,right click,repair and hopefully
that will work[grumbles50@xxxxxxxxxxx]
"Philip Wright" wrote:
> 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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