Re: Problem with 1 of 4 computers using MN-500 Router

From: Roland Hall (nobody_at_nowhere)
Date: 06/04/04


Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 02:17:53 -0500


"Keppy" wrote in message news:er9D46bSEHA.3012@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
: The routers IP address is the same as both computers, adapter MAC Bridge
: Miniport, File
: sharing Enabled, address type DHCP. In the actual router tools management
it
: has, Broadband connection: Connected, WAN IP address: my proper ISP
: (earthlink) address, Subnet mask: address, Default gateway: address is the
: same as my ISP address except the last three numbers, Primary Domain Name
: System (DNS): address and Secondary DNS: address. The local Area
: network setting are the same as the screen shot, DHCP server enabled,
: firewall: enabled, It shows the host names of all the computers, including
: the desktop and their IP and MAC addresses. I don't know if that is what
you
: are asking about, but it all looks kosher to me.
:
: I tried to send a screen shot of the two IPconfigs but it wouldn't post
and
: there is on way to highlight the text in the dos window to past it
here.The
: only things different between to two computer are the host name (each is
the
: name of that computer) the description, the desktop: MAC Bridge Miniport,
: the laptop: Atheros Wireless, The physical addresses are different and
: everything else is the same, until the last few lines, the laptop lists
: Ethernet adapter local area connection: Media state: media disconnected,
: description: Realtek Ethernet NIC, and a physical address. The desktop
does
: not have these extra lines.

Hi Carol...

BTW... I ask when I don't understand and I posted to you because I thought
I might be able to help you. I apologize if you were offended. I'm just
usually to the point as best I can be but there are days when I can write a
book and bore you to tears. You caught me on a good day. (O:= Lucky you!
LOL

We actually need to see the specific private addressing, not the public
side. This will help you to copy text from your command prompt.

Left-click the control menu (top left corner of your command prompt window),
select properties.
Select the first tab which should be 'Options.'
In the Edit Options section, make sure QuickEdit Mode is checked.
Not relative but Insert Mode is good to have checked also.
Click OK and then select Modify shortcut that started this window.
Click OK.

Now, ipconfig /all

Click and drag your mouse to select the displayed text and then right-click.
This will copy it to the clipboard. Then you can paste it into your
message.

Please do this on a working and not working [as you want] system and let us
know which is which as Phillip has mentioned. If the router private address
is 192.168.1.1 with a mask of 255.255.255.0, then we need to know that
because the workstations will display a DFG (default gateway) and we need to
know it is correct.

We will most likely have more questions but we need to start somewhere.

The insert mode [in your command line property settings] allows you to
right-click anywhere in the command prompt, if text is not selected already,
and paste whatever is in the clipboard into the command prompt window.

: All computers are sharing the same cable internet connection properly.
:
: Thanks for trying to help. I've been trying to figure this out myself for
: months. I tried the XP network setup and I just don't know what else to
try.
: When I logged off the desktop, shut down and then booted back up and
logged
: in, I could see my network "keppy" and I could even see my computer (in
: Windows Explorer, Network connections), but when I tried to access my own
: drives (the desktop computer drives, from the desktop computer) it tells
me
: I may not have permissions. (I have no trouble accessing the drives in
: Windows Explorer by clicking on "MY Computer", just via the Network
: computer). Yet I can get on the desktop with all three other computer to
: share files and printers, and all three have no problem sharing with each
: other (including the desktop)

Generally if you see shares but cannot connect to them then it means you
don't have rights to do that. Since this is a peer-peer (peer to peer)
network, it requires duplicate accounts on each workstation with shares,
rights give to the users at the share level and if using NTFS permissions,
security rights for those user where the paths of those shares map to.

HTH...

-- 
Roland Hall
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