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by eliaphil

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Hi, I have a small home network with xp home acting as the main desktop with a shared folder.A cisco 800 router is used for the hard wired desktop which has attached a belkin 604 wireless router for any wireless users. I am not able to ping or map a drive to the share on the desktop from my laptop. The cisco has an address 10.1.1.200 and acts as the dhcp and gateway to the internet with the belkin set to 10.1.1.210. The laptop is able to get an ip from the router OK and access the internet and thats it. I have recently installed a network printer via IP to the cisco with no problems and can connect to the printer and ping OK.
Am I missing something here....

Phil

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by mamies

What is the IP address of the XP Home Machine, Does it fall into the same address range of the machines that are attached to the wireless routers.

Also try disabling the Firewall on the XP Home machine and trying again, you may also need to disable the firewall on one of the Wireless machines aswell.

Also try connect the XP machine to the wireless router through one of the LAN ports and try the above steps again. It may be that the Wireless router is not allowing file sharing to something that is not connected directly to it

Thanks,

Matthew

by eliaphil

XP home address is 10.1.1.201, both the belkin 10.1.1.210, cisco 10.1.1.200 and a printer 10.1.1.204 can be pinged but not the home machine. Have also disabled the firewall on both machines and also included exceptions rule.

by cmatthews

..change its IP to something within the subnet of the 800 (so you can manage the wireless). Then turn off Belkin DHCP and connect one of its ports to the 800. If the Belkin has no auto-mdx (auto media crossover) use crossover cable between them.

This will turn your Belkin into an access point and add 3 more Ethernet ports to your LAN. Now you will find everything will fall into the same subnet as the 800's DHCP will "run the show".

Note some wireless routers may have an access-point mode... If the Belkin has it, use it per manual.

by eliaphil

I have given the dlink 10.1.1.210 using a crossover cable as the cisoc router has address 10.1.1.200. I am able to access the both router config pages via IE on the laptop. I can tracert and ping laptop address, the cisco IP address, belkin ip address but not the desktop adress of 10.1.1.201. Dhcp range starts at 200.

by cmatthews

..the firewall settings on the desktop (under advanced settings, ICMP tab.

I think you're getting close to working this out.

by dark_angel_6

In my experience windows XP's "Simple File Sharing" can cause enormous headaches when networking with XP home. Have you tried turning this off?

If you're not sure whether it is on or not, open an explorer window (My Computer or something similar), Then go to "Tools" and "Folder Options" on the menu. Select the "View" tab and under "Advanced", scroll right to the bottom of the page and untick "Use simple file sharing (Recommended)".

I can't tell you how many times unticking this one little box has fixed issues that have completely stumped everyone involved.

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