EDIT: HELP! Network problemos

[Revolutionary]

Hey. Just setting up my network, and looked in "My Network Places" under my wife's WinXP Home account. I found 3 folders on 3 web addresses inside. She doesn't recognize any of the folders, or the corresponding web pages. What's going on here? Do I have in intrusion problem?

EDIT: New problems to wonder about. See my posts below.

 

[AFB]

3 web addresses inside

What do you mean by that?

Btw, Is your network wireless and if so, are you using WEP.

 

[HKSturboKID]

What are the addresses?

 

[Revolutionary]

I've found more.

When I go to My Network Places, in hers it shows three folder icons.

They can also be found under Web Client Network when I "Add a network places" in My Network Places.

Funny thing. When I went into MNP to get the addresses just a second ago, they were gone.

WTF is going on here? I went into her history and pulled them from there (I visited the sites a little while ago).

http://www.colchsfc.ac.uk/PHILOSOPHYRS
http://www.k111.k12.il.us/lafayette
http://www.hozien.com/mih

She didn't recognize any of the sites, and there's pretty much no reason that she would have visited them.

I'm stumped and worried...

I'm also having trouble networking my wireless laptop and my wired PC via a firewall-router-access point, if anyone cares to help. Can't get them to see each other... This sucks...

 

[Revolutionary]

And yes, part of the network is now wireless, and I am using WPA, but I just installed it today, so I really doubt its from the WIFI.

 

[AFB]

Try deleting them and see if they come back. The only way I know that you can add things to My network places is locally.

I'm also having trouble networking my wireless laptop and my wired PC via a firewall-router-access point, if anyone cares to help. Can't get them to see each other... This sucks...

Sure, can you give some more info.

 

[Revolutionary]

Alright.

Router: D-Link DI-624 802.11g
Laptop: D-Link DWL-G650 802.11g
PC: Wired LAN

Both PCs are on WinXP Home.

I think I went astray when I discovered the above problem. I had originally successfully networked the PCs and I shared several folders on both. And then I went into My Network Places in my wife's account and found the above entries. Well I kinda freaked. I immediately stopped sharing all folders on the PC, despite the warning that users were connected, since I didn't know what was happening.

Well, after that, I can't get both machines to network, meaning that they don't see each other at all. On the laptop I can "View workgroup computers" in My Network Places, and it shows itself in the workgroup, not the PC. On the PC, nothing shows; on neither of the machines can I manually add the other. Both show nothing under the workgroup.

I don't know what to do. I've run that stupid network wizard a couple of times, tried different settings, nothing works and I don't even know what to try next. Do I need to somehow remove or delete a network in order to create a new one? How would I do that?

I'm just stuck, stuck, stuck...

 

[JackMDS]

These links do not look like any thing that would be used by attackers. They look like for some one who is trying to write a paper or apply for Religious Studies.

No reason to get upset, just delete them and keep an Eye.

 

[AFB]

Make a folder with a text file in it on the desktops and see if you can share that.

 

[Revolutionary]

No dice.

They aren't connecting to the same workgroup. They are both connecting to the internet, but its like the router isn't actually networking them together.

I've reenabled sharing for about 5 folders on the PC, but NOTHING shows up in my network places for my account (haven't checked wifes). By contrast, all shared folders show up in My Network Places on the Laptop. But no resources from either shows up on the other, and I can't manually connect to either (tried typing IPs, domain\folder).

Dunno...

 

[AFB]

Are you using any firewalls such as window's ?

 

[Revolutionary]

No. I will be using ZoneAlarm Plus, but have uninstalled it until I get things running.

 

[AFB]

Anti-virus?

 

[Revolutionary]

norton 2002.

 

[AFB]

Try disabling it and see if that helps.

 

[Revolutionary]

I think I got it figured out. I switched the router over to static DHCP for the laptop, set a static IP for the laptop in TCP/IP, and resticted my DHCP range to 100 and 101. I can now map the IP and the shared folders on the IP. The useless Windows Home Networking Wizard is, well, useless. I just manually added all of the shared folders on each machine to their respective My Network Places.

Seems to have worked...

 

[AFB]

map the IP and the shared folders on the IP.

What do you mean?

 

[Revolutionary]

I can go into My Network Places on either machine and click "Add network place", type in the respective IP address for the other computer in the field(e.g., for my laptop, \\198.162.0.100), and then it will list the shared resources. Select the one you want and click enter. I just have to do this once for every resource that I want to access, from both accounts on both computers (pain in the arse). But at least its working.

Seems that part of my problem was that I had Windows configuring my wireless connections, and Windows is, as in all other aspects, pretty stupid about that. It wasn't always connecting me to my "Preferred" access point, but was occasionally connecting me to a neighbor's (meaning that his isn't secured at all, because I was accessing the internet consistently)! So I switched over to the D-Link utility for connections. It only connects me to my preferred AP. Still there was nothing in My Network Places or in my workgroup, but I could now ping each computer from the other. So, using that information, I could now manually add network places using the IP\[folder name]. I then restricted the DHCP as mentioned, so that the manually added folders wouldn't become inaccessible if the router were to switch the IPs for the two computers.

Make sense? God it took me a long time to figure this out...

 

[AFB]

Try entering into internet explorer \\computernamehere of the comuter your trying to access and see if that works.

 

[Revolutionary]

yeah, that works, too. Still not in the same workgroup, but I can live with that.