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ok, my dad has a linksys wired router, and i have a netgear wireless. the cable modem hooks into the wired, and i use the wireless as just an AP. I get internet on my laptop wirelessly, but i can't access shared folders or printers on our network. what do i do?
 
Make sure that DCHP Server is disabled in the wireless router's setup page. Also, be sure to have the exact same workgroup name entered into all computers. Lastly, you must disable the Internet Firewall if running XP.
 
Why disable the DHCP? That will not solve the problem. If all the machines are configured to recieve an IP address automatically, you're fine.

If you are running XP on the machines, then yes, make sure the built in firewall is disabled as that is the most common problem.
 
all the computers wired into that network not throuh my router are fine. mines the only one. one of the computers is our web server would disabling dhcp mess that up?
 
I'm assuming you have the wireless router chained to the wired router. If so make sure you are not using the WAN or Internet port on the wireless router to connect it to the wired router. Use uplink ports or get/make a crossover cable to chain the switches in the routers together.
 
im in the routers setup right now theres some RIP options that look like that might be it.

RIP (None|In|Out|both)
RIP version (RIP1|RIP2B|RIP2m)
 
I am having a similar situation. I just got my laptop today and have been messing with my network settings for about an hour trying to get it to connect to my wired pc's.

I am using a linksys WRT54G router with wep on

From my laptop I am able to connect to the internet just fine. I have the wep key entered so there are no problems there. My problem is that my laptop is unable to relove the names of my wired pc's. I can't ping any of my wired pc's by using their computer name. I have to use their ip. Its the same for windows filesharing. Won't work with the computer name but works fine using its ip. Any ideas or suggestions?

its probably something really easy i just over looked.

EDIT: When I hook up the laptop to the network with cat5 it can resolve all names just fine.
 
What are the IPs set for both of the routers? Are they in the same subnet (they both have the form of something like 192.168.1.x or 192.168.0.x )? When you say it worked with the Cat5, is that plugged into the linksys or netgear router?

The RIP is a routing protocol and we know that the routers are routing properly since you can access the internet. I suspect that the wireless router is on a different subnet.
 
The second router won't be used to route. It is only used as as switch and AP. Therefore, you need to disable the DHCP server on that device as mentioned before. Looks like your already good on omitting the WAN port. You can eliminate DHCP as a potential issue completely by disabling DHCP alltogether. Not necessary but it would solve any DHCP issue. Just disable the second router's DHCP and use it simply as a switch/AP. You should be fine then. If not then make sure you are on the same network, IP segment, and start pinging.

If you want to use RIP and setup different network segments then it sounds like it's a possibility with your router(s), however if you were comfortable with that I doubt you'd be posting here. I'd recommend not trying to segment. Unless you have a large number of nodes, and your ports are switched, it's just unnecessary.
 
Actually etiquette dictates you start a thread of your own instead of hijacking someone elses thread. Sounds like your problem is just name resolution issues. Possibly master browser wars.
 
I was happening to read the lastest issue of Maximum PC and somebody had a similar complaint. One of their suggestions was to try upgrading the firmware on your wireless AP.If you have the WRT54G router - I'm sure you'll find some firmware that will get this working if the firmware is the culprit behind your problems.
 
i agree with dreamnid, make sure the ip addresses in the dhcp server on each router match that way, the computers can actually see and communicate with each other.

Brandon
 
Actually, I was thinking about this in class today - perhaps it is SUPPOSED to be that way. Wireless is inheriantly insecure - so wireless aps tries to be more "secure" by blocking NetBios names from working?
 
I had a similar problem when adding a D-link wireless router to a lynksys wired router. The linksys is in the range of 192.168.1.x but the D-link is in 192.168.0.x so I changed the ip of the D-link to 192.168.1.51 and disabled DHCP on the D-link and everything worked.

Well it wasn’t that easy, I also configured WEP and no broadcast ssid. The order you do this in was important but I couldn’t tell you what order that was.
I learned that you don’t want to config this thing wirelessly, plug in to the switch to config. I also got good at rebooting and resetting the router and ipconfig /renew .
 
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