I am a complete novoice to the point of being an idiot when it comes to networking, but I am trying to set up a wireless network to share files and printers. I have a linksys router & linksys wireless adapters on all the computers.
They can all access the internet and I have shared files or drives. When I go to Network Neighborhood, it can see the computers, but when I click on them they typically say the network drive is not accessible. I have pinged the computers and sometimes they ping ok and then I can get to the computer and then I can’t.
So it seems like sometimes they are communicating and sometimes not. This will happened within a few minutes even though the internet connection is constant.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to troubleshoot why they connect and then not or can point me to a white paper or knowledge base that can explain in dummy terms what to do.
I have checked and the workgroups are all the same. The ip addresses all start with 192.168.1 and then different “extentions”. There is not firewall. I am running WIN2K Professional on all the computers and they all have current service packs.
Thanks all in advance.