res network

digiman

Is there anyway of being able to connect to the computers on res from a laptop that is in the library or on the wireless network?

awayINaManger

digiman wrote:

Is there anyway of being able to connect to the computers on res from a laptop that is in the library or on the wireless network?

both those networks are on dhcp, possibly on the same subnet, do an ipconfig on each and check, if they are you should have no bother connecting by whatever means you want to use, if they are on different subnets pretty much all networking across subnets is disabled apart from ftp so that would be worth a go

digiman

Is it the third part of the IP address that tells you what subnet you are on? If so they are different. If you manually assign an IP address to yourself will it work that way? What address would you use if you were going to ftp them?

awayINaManger

digiman wrote:

Is it the third part of the IP address that tells you what subnet you are on? If so they are different. If you manually assign an IP address to yourself will it work that way? What address would you use if you were going to ftp them?

yea, the third part of the ip address tells you, you can manually change it but then nothing will work as it won't be able to see the gateway. If you want to try ftping you need to install an ftp server on one of the machines, theres a few free ones out there http://www.cerberusftp.com/ is an example, very simple to use, install it, create a user account in the program, give the account a home directory, eg a folder containing what you want to access on the pc, give the user read/write access. You can use an ftp client to connect, there are loads of free ones out there, or you can use internet explorer or most any other browser, if you are using an ftp client it will look for the server address, which is its ip address and the username and password for the account you created. If you use a web browser you can just browse to
ftp://username: password@ipaddress.of.server
eg ftp://Username: password@136.206.249.100 username and password being what you specified for the account (without the spaces in the url, it turns them to smilies here)

digiman

Thanks for the relpy. All I wanted to do was to be able to get some music of the shared folders of some of the computers on the res network. Is there no other way of being able to do this? Does anyone have an ftp site set up this year? There was several good ones set up last year and you could use the RESDNS program to access them easily

Bananayoghurt

digiman wrote:

Thanks for the relpy. All I wanted to do was to be able to get some music of the shared folders of some of the computers on the res network. Is there no other way of being able to do this? Does anyone have an ftp site set up this year? There was several good ones set up last year and you could use the RESDNS program to access them easily

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markpb

Unless things have changed from last year, the machines in res are firewalled off from the rest of the network, including from other machines on DHCP but on different subnets. Sometimes its possible to run a web or ftp server on a port over 1,024 and access that from the library.