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computers can't see each other when wifi encryption is enabled

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her34

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EDIT: i've discovered that this problem only happens when i have wifi encryption enabled. both computers wireless networks are managed by windows, using wpa-psk tkip encryption.

aside from disabling encryption when i need to share computers, how can i fix this?




i have 2 computers on a wireless network and they can't see each other for about 10-15 minutes after windows starts. they don't show up on workgroup, and the shared printer won't work either. when i try to ping one computer from the other it just times out.

firewalls and anti-virus are disabled on both computers. they're both on the same workgroup. internet access works fine on both computers the whole time. windows xp sp2 on both machines

i've tried installing netbeui, enabling netbios over tcpip.

router is dlink di-524

 
reference them by IP address only, not names or workgroup/network neighboorhood.

when you say ping are you pinging the actual IP address? or the name?
 
how do i get the computer to reference each other by ip?


i found ip by using command prompt "ipconfig"
i ping from other computer by command prompt "ping 192.168.0.200"
when i do the same procedure 15 minutes later, it pings fine
 
You can use windows explorer to map a network drive. This is just a drive letter that points to a share on another computer. the destination would look like this \\ip address\sharename

same with setting up a printer.

but if you can't ping another computer from the command prompt - ping x.x.x.x, then there are other problems.

but it's quite normal for network browsing to not work, especially if machines are rebooted frequently.
 
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