Wireless Transfer

[djjimbob]

AJ: Search for the word "passerby" in the this page:

http://www.adslguide.org.uk/hardware/reviews/2004/q3/netgear-dg834g.asp

and have a good read.

Don't worry about ping too much. A lot of firewall programs stop this working, I can't ping on my home PC either, but can access the web. The fact that both your PCs can access the web is a winner.

Also, have you made your 2 PCs part of the same workgroup in XP?

[aj_4176]

well you wouldn't believe it, after and hour spent on the phone yesterday with Netgears support (where the lady had me put static ip adress under TCP/IP properties [even though my isp {AOL} uses dynamic] it has made it worse.

Right the exact connection in my house is this, I have two computers, mine is connected to the router wired (DG834GT) and my brothers is setup wirelessly (W111T).
I can ping from my brothers to mine but i cannot ping from mine to my brothers. I have made sure that both firewalls (Windows and 3rd party) are off but still cant ping (from my computer).
After using static ip address (see above) it still didnt do anything and after an hour she gave up and asked me to phone during business hours as I might need to update my firmware.

Problem now is that i cannot browse internet (not even router settings) with my firewall (Agnitum Outpost) on and have to turn it off permanently.

[aj_4176]

Jimbob - I do not have this set up, as i found out after right clicking my C drive. Instead it says To prevent your computer from unauthorised access, sharing of the root drive in not recommended.

If you know what you are doing then click here.

AJ,

The C$ is basically a share of the root of your hard drive. Windows automatically creates this share, it is called an admin share.

If you have partitions on your disk, you may also have a D$, E$ etc etc etc.

So you need to make sure you can see the other PC, using the PING method as described in this thread. Then you use standard windows commands to connect to the C$.

Eg: Start --> Run

PCNAME\C$

then it might ask you for username and password and you will want to supply an administrator priviledge account.

EG:

PCNAME\ADMIN
password

Jimbob

[aj_4176]

I managed to sort out the above problem now focusing my attention on creating the network.

I am gonna get a lot of reading done on that website jimbob.

[djjimbob]

You just mentioned the dreaded word - AOL.

Good luck.

edit: You have my sympathies

[djjimbob]

Update - I setup exactly the same thing up at home at the weekend and experienced similar problems.

Here's how to fix:

Make both PCs member of same Workgroup
Share out the drive / folder you want by using the Sharing Tab in Properties.
Go to Network Connections in Conrtol Panel and right click on your Network card/connection. You need to Install a new Protocol. It's called NetBIOS.
Install the NetBIOS protocol.
Go to the Properties of the TCP/IP Protocol and go to the WINS tab, Click on Enable NETBIOS over TCP/IP.

Now you should be able to use My Network Places, Entire Network, Microsoft Windows Network to view your workgroups and shares.

Jimbob

[AlonzoUK]

Update - I setup exactly the same thing up at home at the weekend and experienced similar problems.

Here's how to fix:

Make both PCs member of same Workgroup
Share out the drive / folder you want by using the Sharing Tab in Properties.
Go to Network Connections in Conrtol Panel and right click on your Network card/connection. You need to Install a new Protocol. It's called NetBIOS.
Install the NetBIOS protocol.
Go to the Properties of the TCP/IP Protocol and go to the WINS tab, Click on Enable NETBIOS over TCP/IP.

Now you should be able to use My Network Places, Entire Network, Microsoft Windows Network to view your workgroups and shares.

Jimbob

This is unlikely to fix his problem.....all it does his switch on netbios name resolution so he can connect to the machine via it's name - you don't need this to connect to the machine via it's IP address.

This sounds like there is some sort of firewall in place - if you are getting time outs when trying to ping each computer then either the WinXP or a third party firewall is blocking certain ports on your network.

The netgear dg834gt acts as a firewall on the internet so you don't really need to have the firewall client running.

The following article talks about the Windows XP firewall and how to enable/disable it.

http://www.tlhouse.co.uk/articles_in...firewall.shtml

It also talks about how file and print sharing are affected by the winxp firewall and ways around it.

[djjimbob]

I can't ping my PCs from inside my network but I can connect over WINS/NETBIOS.