Re: wirless netgear router to linksys wired router & one home network

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In news:32E90CC7-DD51-40FE-9295-663A2ECCEC05@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Jay <Jay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> typed:
This was my problem:

I have a lnksys wired router with 3 PCs attached in a home network
that is working fine. I added a netgear rangemax wireless router and
connected it to the linksys. I then added 2 wireless laptops whih are
working fine with the netgear/linksys router configuration. But I
can't seem to add the laptops to the existing home network. I run the
network wizard and give the name of the exisitng network and it seems
to finish ak but when I try to add access to a printer from one of
the other PCs to the laptop it doesn't find any of the other PCs in
the network when I have it browse for a printer. It shows the network
name but I can't get the network name to expand. What am I missing?

This was my solution:
First I read this post:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/newsgroups/reader.mspx?dg=microsoft.public.windowsxp.network_web&tid=dd2ac847-2741-4ddc-9d57-d406244d6753&cat=en-us-ms-winxp&lang=en&cr=US&sloc=en-us&m=1&p=1

Which led me to this netgear KB item:

http://kbserver.netgear.com/kb_web_files/n101236.asp

Now everthing works and shares their resources on the one Home network

Jay

It's great that you got this resolved, but you should have posted this as a
reply into your existing thread, to make things clearer for everyone.

One thing to mention - you probably should have gotten a plain old *access
point* instead of a wireless-capable router. You already have a router. Now,
your wireless clients are on another network and you have to do more work to
get them to see each other.




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