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Help My Netgear Network is killin me!

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Supafreak

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I own a netgear rt314 router and I recently purchased a laptop. I bought the netgear me102 access point and ma401 wireless pc-card. The ME102 Access Point connects to the existing network and the internet works fine on the laptop (running win xp home). BUT i cannot share anything or access any shared files on the network (2 wired computers [one on win xp and the other on win 2000] networked by the main router). I connected the laptop directly to the router with an ethernet cable and after a lot of fooling around with network options in DOS i could connect to the other computers with a wire through network neighborhood. But once i took it off and connected the wireless it all went back to hell again...but the internet worked. BTW FTP from the wireless laptop to the wired computers did work.

So...kinda complicated and very annoying, any suggestions on how i could use network neighborhood to connect to the wired computers from the laptop??

Thanx
 
Make sure your access oint is set for bridging mode. If it's in gateway (or router) mode, it'll block the broadcasts that MS networking needs to see the machines on the net and negotiate for connections. If it's hard set and unchangeble (in rouer mode), there should be some kind of IP helper / Netowrk Helper...something like that, where you give the hard-wired side of the network the address of the remote client(s) and it converts the broadcast into a Unicast (aimed at the specific machine).

I don't have any Netgear equipment, but this came to mind as a possible.....

Good Luck

Scott
 
First thing I would try would be the individual computers ping the computers.
Next check to make sure that the laptop is "bound" to the same network protocols as the others.
Third check to ensure you are all on the same subnet (check your laptop settings for the wireless card)
Fourth try using the bios name i.e. \\computername << typed in start > run
Fifth try installing netbios (make sure you have a solid, SOLID firewall)
Sixth check network neighborhood/my network places etc.
Seven Rest

If those fail try a hammer or just tell me and I will think up another way to create an answer!
 
My netgear equipment, not wireless, came with a default rule to block filesharing on the LAN. You may want to try and look for that in the filters section.
 
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