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by cryingdragon

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OK...here's the deal. I have an existing workgroup, and added a router to it with a couple of computers behind it. Now, here's the problem. The computers behind the router cannot access the rest of the workgroup. I have a netgear MR314 router soI can take advantage of wireless networking.

Does anyone know why I can't see the rest of my workgroup?

Thanks in advance!!

Mike

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by john.dahlberg

Windows networking relys on a browser list being propogated via broadcasting on the LAN. When you add a router to the picture, you are dividing the broadcast domains and dividing the browser list. This is part of the design of Netbios.

There are three ways of dealing with this.
1) Setup a WINS server for dealing with name resolution and configure your clients to use the server. This is typically done on reasonably sized networks.
2) Configure the lmhosts file on each of the machines. This file works like DNS in that it maps the Microsoft name to the IP, however this approach requires that IP addresses be statically assigned.
3) Convert the network to a bridged environment. Most wireless routers have an internal and an external side; the internal side will bridge traffic to the wireless network. Try connecting the internal side of the wireless router to the LAN in order to adjoin the two networks. Keep in mind that the IP scheme will need to match.

Keep in mind that there are several security considerations with a wireless LAN and all of these options have implications.

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