Re: Workgroups
- From: "Steve Winograd [MVP]" <winograd@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 06:11:06 -0600
In article <18E770A6-68F6-4850-AC0F-A070C4969620@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"scootguy" <scootguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >I'm trying to do something that may not even be possible, so I'd appreciate
>> >any direction as to whether or not I should even pursue it. I have a desktop
>> >and a laptop connected wirelessly as workgroup homenet. That was working
>> >fine, but then I decided I also wanted to connect them through a wired router
>> >with the default workgroup mshome. I need to know if this can be done.
>> >Also, is there any way to list the workgroups? It's easy enough to create
>> >them via the wizard but it would be nice if they could be listed so that they
>> >could be modified or deleted.
>>
>> Why do you want to use a different workgroup name for the wired and
>> wireless setups? I see no benefit to doing that.
>
>I assumed it was necessary - otherwise I don't know how the computers would
>know to use the wired or wireless network.
>
>> Workgroup membership is a property of the computer, not the network
>> connections. A computer can only be a member of one workgroup at a
>> time. There's no association between network connections and
>> workgroups. It isn't possible to have the wired connection in one
>> workgroup and the wireless connection in another workgroup.
>
>Is there any way to network these computers both wired and wirelessly at the
>same time?
>
>> A network can have more than one active workgroup. For example, the
>> desktop can be in "homenet" and the laptop can be in "mshome" at the
>> same time. A computer in any workgroup can access a computer in any
>> workgroup.
>
>I would just as soon have them both be in homenet.
>
>> To see all of the workgroups currently on a network:
>>
>> 1. Open My Network Places.
>> 2. Click "View workgroup computers".
>> 3. Press the Backspace key.
>>
>> To access another computer directly, regardless of which workgroup
>> either computer is in, type the other computer's name in the Start |
>> Run box in this format:
>>
>> \\computer
>
>Thanks for your help!
You're welcome. It's possible, but tricky, to use two network
connections between computers simultaneously. I do it on my home
network. My two main computers connect to the Internet through
connections to a wireless router, and they connect to each other via
an IEEE 1394 connection for fast file transfer.
If two network connections use the same IP address range (e.g. wired
and wireless connections to the same wired router), the easiest
solution is to enable the connection that you want to use at a
particular time and disable the one that you don't want to use.
To use both connections simultaneously, they must have different IP
address ranges. For example, I use 192.168.123.x for the wireless
router connection and 10.x.x.x for the FireWire connection.
To access another computer using a specific network connection, use
the connection's IP address, not the computer name. I've assigned
static IP addresses 192.168.123.100 and 10.0.0.2 to my main computer.
To access it from the second computer via the wireless router, I type
"\\192.168.123.100" in the Start | Run box. To access it from the
second computer via the IEEE 1394 connection, I type "\\10.0.0.2" in
the Start | Run box.
I don't know of a way to control which connection is used when
accessing another computer through My Network Places.
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