Weird Router/College Network Question

[canfraggle]

I just got an Barricade 7004AWBR SMC wireless router so that I can roam around my hall with my laptop but still get network access with desktop via wired ethernet. However, with this thing, I lose access to my local school network (though I still get internet access with it). How can I turn off the features of the router that are preventing me from getting access to the outside world?

Mark

 

[crazydave]

There might be an option on your router to bridge wired and wireless networks--that should do the trick. Make sure you don't have your router setup as a DHCP server on wired network--that will probably mess it up for other users. Good luck!

 

[FUBAR]

What you are probably looking at is that it is not forwarding your network-neighborhood stuff, correct? You will have to make sure that the ports for the MS Networking are forwarded over to your PC. I think they are 139, can anyone verify that?

Also, you'll want to check to see if there are any filters explicitly blocking the networking from going over the WAN link. My Netgear, or was it the linksys, anyway, one of them had a block on network traffic. You may just need to disable that. But check both to be sure.

 

[gaidin123]

You will likely want to specifically forward certain ports to your machine (for windows/Samba filesharing I believe it's 137-139). As a test you could DMZ your internal IP through your router's config area and see if you can browse the local network again. If you can, it's definitely a port forwarding issue.

Gaidin

 

[crazydave]

It might not even be that complicated with port forwarding and all... we were using Apple Airports at school and there was one checkbox to bridge the wireless and wired networks that was off by default, checked it off and everything worked... but then again your hardware might be different and actually require the forwarding..