Home & Small Office Network

3 Aug 2006 10:04 PM

jason

Firstly apologies if I am posting this on to the wrong Newsgroup, but it
just seemed to logically be the right one.

Our small office has 5 PC in it all with shared folders under one
workgroup and all working fine (all PC's are XP Home, except one which is
Win98SE). We replaced the ethernet cable with USB wireless adapters and
plugged an access point into the wall port. All can see the router
through the access point, all get allocated IP addresses and all can see
the internet. But now the file sharing doesn't work? We get a message
saying the workgroup is not available and to consult your network manager?
I know this is a bit vague, but any ideas from anyone would be greatly
appreciated.

Thanks to all
Jason

4 Aug 2006 7:59 PM

Jack (MVP-Networking).

Hi
Make sure that the Access Point's core IP is off the same subnet as the main Router and DHCP is off, and that all computers gets their IP from the main Router and are on the same subnet. If the AP DHCP is
This page was written for Wire;ess Routers, but the same principles apply to AP as well, http://www.ezlan.net/router_AP.html
Jack (MVP-Networking).

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Firstly apologies if I am posting this on to the wrong Newsgroup, but it just seemed to logically be the right one.

Our small office has 5 PC in it all with shared folders under one workgroup and all working fine (all PC's are XP Home, except one which is Win98SE). We replaced the ethernet cable with USB wireless adapters and plugged an access point into the wall port. All can see the router through the access point, all get allocated IP addresses and all can see the internet. But now the file sharing doesn't work? We get a message saying the workgroup is not available and to consult your network manager? I know this is a bit vague, but any ideas from anyone would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks to all
Jason