no one seemed to reply in Networking, maybe someone here will?

[deerslayer]

I know, this belongs in the Networking Forum, but no one answered, so i'm trying it here

Ok, today i got a D-Link DI-704 router. My friend ordered it for me from a guy on this forum, no idea who, not really important. I also got a 50 ft Belkin Cat5 cable and he let me borrow a short one to use to hook it up to my computer with. I put a network card in my computer, and i hooked the short cable to the net card and then plugged it into the first port on the router. Then i took the 50ft cable and ran that through the hallway (just to test it) to my parents computer which i also put a network card in (obviously). I tinkered with it for a while, and i got it to share the internet connection (only have dial up right now, so it kinda sucks) and that worked and i could open files from my computer on my parents computer but i couldn't open files off of my parents computer with mine, if i tried to display the network computers, the window froze and i had to CTRL ALT DEL out of it. The router came with (obviously) the router and the power cable, nothing else. Is there something i have to install? Will that fix the problem of not being able to open stuff from my computer? I downloaded a firmware from the D-Link site, but i'm not sure what to do with it. Any help is really appreciated cuz i'm pretty new to all of this network stuff. I did run the network wizard on my computer (XP Pro) and i finally got it to set up after i shut off the router, but it still does the same thing. I also ran the network wizard on my parents computer with the floppy disk they suggest you make. I haven't tried hooking their computer back up yet because i took the network card out and put the modem back in so they could use the internet while i was at work. Thanks in advance for any help, sorry the post is so long, i just don't want to leave anything out.

 

[Hamburgerpimp]

That may be a little long for the average ATOT Member.

 

[Tallgeese]

LadyRothchild says:

Big, concrete-block-looking text section doth not an interesting post make!

 

[n0cmonkey]

Is there a share on their machine? What OS are they running? Make sure you have permissions set correctly. Try start-->>run-->> \\parents_computer_name <CR> and that may open a window with their shares.

EDIT: Just a hint, but readable posts are much preferred to big pragraphs of poor English

 

[JackMDS]

I don?t think that this is the Router (this blue thing, and may be red but not green, or whatever) fault. Your sharing (that network sharing, not drink sharing, and not buying shares Wall Street) settings is not set correctly in one or both computers.


Sharing in XP is not a simple affair; you have to be patient and go over the info in the following links:

Windows XP Professional .

Windows XP Professional Ed. Sharing Disks /Folders

As well as:

Windows XP Simple File Sharing

 

[spidey07]

and one time in band camp I found a u which looked like a Xover but wans't quite like that but my friend said to use a band which I did but didn't work so I tried the u and couldn't understand the hub is better than the switch right but when i pluggy it no worky so why me no talkie-talkie when i pluggy with my gooogly gagga if I use different pluggies but they still no worky and at the same time my friend gets linkie-blink but me no linkie-blink meaning no talkie-talkie but in band camp I met girl who for five-dollar will do no-hollar but might be scared of "too buchoo" at least that's what my friends tell me when I'm in the shower trying to pluggy-pluggy and tinker with my friends who also play with my router but doesn't work when my slot is being filled and what's with this whole IP thing anyway I thought you needed XP not IP so did my friend tell me to buy the wrong software 'cause if I need to buy IP 95 then I will but me still no talkie-talkie which means me no worky-work. How I get worky-worky?

but I digress. LOL.

Sorry LyNx01 but I had to jump in...check out JackMDS' links. There is a wealth of information there.

 

[deerslayer]

I'm extremely sorry to bother everyone with a networking question. I thought this was the networking forum, but I guess my long question and poor grammar made it an invalid question. I didn't think that I was composing formal messages when I post on AT, but I will try to do better in the future. Thanks for the help.

 

[dbx]

update your parents OS, see if there are any patches/updates they dont have
check their nic driver for a newer version

 

[n0cmonkey]

<< I'm extremely sorry to bother everyone with a networking question. I thought this was the networking forum, but I guess my long question and poor grammar made it an invalid question. I didn't think that I was composing formal messages when I post on AT, but I will try to do better in the future. Thanks for the help. >>



I asked you specific questions that would have helped troubleshoot the problem. I also dropped the hint that hard to read and sloppy questions are hard to understand and therefore hard to answer. I deal with this enough at work.

 

[deerslayer]

I wasn't referring only to you n0cmonkey. I don't know much of anything about setting up a small network at home, and it was frustrating to ask for help and just be criticized for trying to learn.

To answer your questions:

Both machines have file/print sharing enabled.

My computer, which is the one that seems to hang when i try to view the computers is running XP Pro
The other computer, which has no troubles now, is running 98 First Edition.

I can't share the internet, but it is dialup, and the actual name of what i thought was a router is "Cable/DSL Internet Gateway" so i'm assuming that i can't share my dialup connection.

How do i set permissions? It's not prompting me for a password if that's what you mean.

 

[Garion]

I might be able to shed some insight into this..

With XP, you're probably using TCP/IP for file sharing. In TCP/IP, by default, it tries to use DNS to find computers.

Unfortunately, the DNS that you're probably using is on the Internet. If you are disconnected from the 'net, your computer is just going to to try to contact your DNS server, which will force the modem to dial, and you'll have to sit there for a while until it CAN contact your DNS server.

Try to edit C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC\HOSTS and put an entry in that says

a.b.c.d nameofothercomputer

So, if the other computer has 10.0.0.3 and was called "mainpc" you would enter

10.0.0.3 mainpc

and save the file.

See if that does anything. Also, instead of using the network neighborhood, try to do Start/Run and put in "\\mainpc" (or whatever their computer is called).

This can be a bit tricky with DHCP, so you might have to assign a static IP for both computers and do the same thing on both ends.

Best of luck!

- G