Help networking with Uverse gateway

[DBissett]

I'm trying to establish a simple wired network with 2 computers, one running XP and one running Win7 and a printer via this Uverse gateway and not making much progress. Both computers are plugged into the gateway and get internet fine. Both have the same workgroup name. What else is necessary for them to see each other? For the printer, it's been plugged into the Win7 computer...does it stay there or does it get plugged into the gateway somewhere.....where? And is the gateway all I need or is a hub necessary? Thanks.

 

[bobdole369]

The 4 "LAN" ports on the uverse gateway are a 10/100 unmanaged switch, so thats all you need network wise. As for seeing each other, win7 and xp in workgroup mode need an identically named user with identical passwords on both machines. In theory you shouldn't need to do this, but for a lark, disable the windows firewall on both machines. You don't have a WINS server so name resolution is happening by broadcast.

 

[DBissett]

Thanks Bob. After reading more I set win7 to workgroup instead of homegroup, unchecked the option to require a password for sharing, unchecked the 128bit encryption in win7, reset the gateway, turned off Windows firewall and still nothing, nada, zip. I've used Set Up a connection too and that didn't do anything. What's required other than plugging them into the gateway?

 

[MtnMan]

Do you have file and print sharing enabled on both computers?

Can one computer ping the other?

 

[DBissett]

File/printer sharing are tuned on. They share a printer that's plugged into the gateway. Each computer can ping the other one with no apparent problem. Apart from this, neither computer shows any evidence that they see each other or can share anything. When I explore network connections each computer only lists itself and when I bring up IE it's the same thing...the other computer doesn't appear under the network listing.