Wireless network

Creamy Goodness

how's it going?

i'm trying to connect a laptop wirelessly to my desktop with my router/modem linksys WAG354G.

i have both computers connected to a workgroup (MSHOME) and have shared folders that i want to share.

now i go to the laptop and go to my network places >> view workgroup computers >> double-click neil and it says

"\\**compname** is nit accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the admin of this server to find out if you have access permissions.

The network path was not found"

i'm using the using the laptops built in wireless.

Creamy Goodness

bump

petes

Have you set up a user account on the desktop for the laptop?

Creamy Goodness

petes wrote:

Have you set up a user account on the desktop for the laptop?

how do i do that?

aidan_walsh

Have you set the firewall on both computers to allow Network Neighbourhood traffic?

TKK

You may also need to check the firewall on the wireless router.

Creamy Goodness

TKK wrote:

You may also need to check the firewall on the wireless router.

there's no firewall on the router i don't think

retrospect

Can the computers ping each other ?

Creamy Goodness

retrospect wrote:

Can the computers ping each other ?

lol sorry but i've no clue how to do that, erm i suppose i go into cmd.exe and type ping but what do i put after that?

aidan_walsh

ping ipaddress

You can get the IP address by using ipconfig.

retrospect

start-run-cmd (enter)
ping the ip of the computer you want to talk to e.g. ping 192.168.x.x
to find out an ip address us the ipconfig /all command .
more help here
http://www.google.ie/search?hl=en&q=how+to+use+ping&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

Creamy Goodness

it doesn't seem to show up the laptop connected to the wireless network only my computer which is connected to a ethernet port on the router

retrospect

So you tried to ping your laptop from your main computer and got a host unreachable error ? Try pinging your loopback address which is “ping 127.0.0.1” you should get a reply this means tcp/ip is ok .do this on both machines .tell me what happens .

Creamy Goodness

no i couldn't find the ip address of the laptop by typing ipconfig /all

retrospect

Did the ipconfig command on the laptop tell you the ip address was 0.0.0.0 ?

Creamy Goodness

i actually don't have access to the laptop now as it's my brother's and he is out at the moment with it. (showing it off :S)

retrospect

let me know when you get it back and i can help you :cool:

Creamy Goodness

after using ipconfig on the laptop the ip is 192.168.1.65

subway

and is the ip of the pc 192.168.2.xxx ?

Creamy Goodness

192.168.1.64

subway

any firewalll software installed? disable temporaraily
both win xp?

go to start>run on the desktop,
type cmd
then type ping 192.168.1.65

repeat on latop for the desltops ip,
post results

Creamy Goodness

From pc pinging 192.168.1.65

[FONT=monospace]Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\********>ping 192.168.1.65

Pinging 192.168.1.65 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 192.168.1.65: bytes=32 time=107ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.1.65: bytes=32 time=27ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.1.65: bytes=32 time=51ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.1.65: bytes=32 time=75ms TTL=128

Ping statistics for 192.168.1.65:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 27ms, Maximum = 107ms, Average = 65ms

C:\Documents and Settings\********>

[/FONT]

from laptop...

[/FONT][/FONT][FONT=monospace]Pinging 192.168.1.64 with 32 bytes of data:

request timed out.

Ping statistics for 192.168.1.65:
    
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),

subway

well that means they can both see each other,
even if the pings are a bit high.

go to the network connections page on both machines and run the network setup wizard again, now that theyre both connected to each other.
i usually go for a non standard network name such as "home" or "lan" instead of "mshome" just to be sure the wizard runs through fully on all machines.

once youve done that you should be good to go.

edit///
youve pinged the lappy from itself,
try the ping thing again from the lappy but use 198.162.1.64

Creamy Goodness

sorry yeh i just noticed that, i've changed the above post

subway

so the desktop might be the problem.
do you have a firewall / norton / windows firewall enabled?

try disabling them temporarily and ping again

Creamy Goodness

yup it works when i turn off sygate/windows firewall and AVG

pings i get are

47ms
20ms
17ms
20ms

subway

pings could be caused by the wireless part of the network.
i wouldnt worry about it for the moment.

if the network shares work with your firewall off you would need to either manualy configure it for windows or delete the config file for it and set it up again from scratch.

try the shares before running the network wiz and see how you get on.