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Can't see Wireless Computers!I have a D-Link DI-624+ Wireless XtremeG Router.
For some odd reason, computers hooked up to the router via WIRED ETHERNET connection can use the network perfectly fine. For the computers that are connected WIRELESSLY, they cannot see each other, or any other computer on the network. So... WIRED can see WIRED WIRELESS cannot see WIRED WIRED cannot see WIRELESS WIRELESS cannot see WIRELESS All computers do have internet access, and can access the routers settings by typing in the IP address of the router in IE. Any input would be much appreciated. Hi
Given your information the issue is Not Wire or Wireless it is a Sharing problem. Successful Sharing involves some general consideration in Network settings, http://www.ezlan.net/sharing.html As well as specific adjustment of each computer according to what is allowed to be shared. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;304040 Jack (MVP-Networking). <wong-lawre***@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:3387580A-7617-4763-9D85-BFB5724DF3F6@microsoft.com... I have a D-Link DI-624+ Wireless XtremeG Router.For some odd reason, computers hooked up to the router via WIRED ETHERNET connection can use the network perfectly fine. For the computers that are connected WIRELESSLY, they cannot see each other, or any other computer on the network. So... WIRED can see WIRED WIRELESS cannot see WIRED WIRED cannot see WIRELESS WIRELESS cannot see WIRELESS All computers do have internet access, and can access the routers settings by typing in the IP address of the router in IE. Any input would be much appreciated.
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> I have a D-Link DI-624+ Wireless XtremeG Router. > > For some odd reason, computers hooked up to the router via WIRED ETHERNET > connection can use the network perfectly fine. For the computers that are > connected WIRELESSLY, they cannot see each other, or any other computer on > the network. > > So... > WIRED can see WIRED > WIRELESS cannot see WIRED > WIRED cannot see WIRELESS > WIRELESS cannot see WIRELESS > > All computers do have internet access, and can access the routers settings > by typing in the IP address of the router in IE. > > Any input would be much appreciated. > Sorry about the blank post!
I have a similar problem to this that nothing has been able to resolve. I have 2 XP Pro SP2 machines and a Macintosh hard wired into a D-Link router with a wireless access point. If I run 50 feet of Ethernet cable down the stairs and hook up my laptop, the entire network works perfectly. All machines can see each other, use each other's shares, etc. No problems at all. HOWEVER - if I restart the laptop using a wireless PC card adapter, the laptop cannot see any machine on the network or use the shares. Ping by IP address works from the laptop to all the others. Ping by name works from the laptop to all the others. And the network contact is definitely being made, as the laptop has good internet access. From the wired machines, the laptop is occasionally visible, but not always. I have no third party software installed, and the Windows firewall is off on all machines, as the router has a hardware firewall. Thing is, this USED to work perfectly - it stopped working suddenly halfway through a wireless session for no apparent reason. If I restart everything, and wire the laptop back directly into the router, the network is perfect again. Any ideas? I have browsed the internet for weeks, tried all the diagnostics and tests, and have found no solution that works. Any help gratefully received. Show quoteHide quote "W Uphill" wrote: > > > "wong-lawre***@hotmail.com" wrote: > > > I have a D-Link DI-624+ Wireless XtremeG Router. > > > > For some odd reason, computers hooked up to the router via WIRED ETHERNET > > connection can use the network perfectly fine. For the computers that are > > connected WIRELESSLY, they cannot see each other, or any other computer on > > the network. > > > > So... > > WIRED can see WIRED > > WIRELESS cannot see WIRED > > WIRED cannot see WIRELESS > > WIRELESS cannot see WIRELESS > > > > All computers do have internet access, and can access the routers settings > > by typing in the IP address of the router in IE. > > > > Any input would be much appreciated. > > Have you tryed running the network setup wizard , while connected with the
wireless. ? Show quoteHide quote "W Uphill" <WUph***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:C9C4B86A-45FF-4AA2-A3E5-5FAE76AC1A10@microsoft.com... > Sorry about the blank post! > > I have a similar problem to this that nothing has been able to resolve. > > I have 2 XP Pro SP2 machines and a Macintosh hard wired into a D-Link > router > with a wireless access point. > > If I run 50 feet of Ethernet cable down the stairs and hook up my laptop, > the entire network works perfectly. All machines can see each other, use > each > other's shares, etc. No problems at all. > > HOWEVER - if I restart the laptop using a wireless PC card adapter, the > laptop cannot see any machine on the network or use the shares. Ping by IP > address works from the laptop to all the others. Ping by name works from > the > laptop to all the others. And the network contact is definitely being > made, > as the laptop has good internet access. From the wired machines, the > laptop > is occasionally visible, but not always. > > I have no third party software installed, and the Windows firewall is off > on > all machines, as the router has a hardware firewall. > > Thing is, this USED to work perfectly - it stopped working suddenly > halfway > through a wireless session for no apparent reason. If I restart > everything, > and wire the laptop back directly into the router, the network is perfect > again. > > Any ideas? I have browsed the internet for weeks, tried all the > diagnostics > and tests, and have found no solution that works. > > Any help gratefully received. > > "W Uphill" wrote: > >> >> >> "wong-lawre***@hotmail.com" wrote: >> >> > I have a D-Link DI-624+ Wireless XtremeG Router. >> > >> > For some odd reason, computers hooked up to the router via WIRED >> > ETHERNET >> > connection can use the network perfectly fine. For the computers that >> > are >> > connected WIRELESSLY, they cannot see each other, or any other computer >> > on >> > the network. >> > >> > So... >> > WIRED can see WIRED >> > WIRELESS cannot see WIRED >> > WIRED cannot see WIRELESS >> > WIRELESS cannot see WIRELESS >> > >> > All computers do have internet access, and can access the routers >> > settings >> > by typing in the IP address of the router in IE. >> > >> > Any input would be much appreciated. >> > Many times. And I have done the dreaded "Format c:" and started again on 3
occasions so far. No improvement. Wire the laptop - everything is fine. Unlimited access to shared drives, folders and printers in all directions. Wireless it, and although it can connect to the wireless access point and obtain internet access, it cannot access any shares or any servers on the network. When I first installed the wireless card, it could. It originally worked just as seamlessly over the wireless connection as it did over the cable. Now it can't/won't. The standard message about permissions and "The network path was not found" comes up every time I try to access any machine on the network. I have no idea why. I read an article about preventing wireless-connected machines from being master browser, which seemed logical, and have disabled that in Services on the laptop, thus forcing one of the hard-wired machines into that role. I have read many other things, some of which I have tried, others which seemed too risky - but nothing changes. The thing that really makes me cross is that it DID work, for weeks. I changed nothing to make it stop working. Show quoteHide quote "MHPNW STAFF" wrote: > Have you tryed running the network setup wizard , while connected with the > wireless. ? > > > "W Uphill" <WUph***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:C9C4B86A-45FF-4AA2-A3E5-5FAE76AC1A10@microsoft.com... > > Sorry about the blank post! > > > > I have a similar problem to this that nothing has been able to resolve. > > > > I have 2 XP Pro SP2 machines and a Macintosh hard wired into a D-Link > > router > > with a wireless access point. > > > > If I run 50 feet of Ethernet cable down the stairs and hook up my laptop, > > the entire network works perfectly. All machines can see each other, use > > each > > other's shares, etc. No problems at all. > > > > HOWEVER - if I restart the laptop using a wireless PC card adapter, the > > laptop cannot see any machine on the network or use the shares. Ping by IP > > address works from the laptop to all the others. Ping by name works from > > the > > laptop to all the others. And the network contact is definitely being > > made, > > as the laptop has good internet access. From the wired machines, the > > laptop > > is occasionally visible, but not always. > > > > I have no third party software installed, and the Windows firewall is off > > on > > all machines, as the router has a hardware firewall. > > > > Thing is, this USED to work perfectly - it stopped working suddenly > > halfway > > through a wireless session for no apparent reason. If I restart > > everything, > > and wire the laptop back directly into the router, the network is perfect > > again. > > > > Any ideas? I have browsed the internet for weeks, tried all the > > diagnostics > > and tests, and have found no solution that works. > > > > Any help gratefully received. > > > > "W Uphill" wrote: > > > >> > >> > >> "wong-lawre***@hotmail.com" wrote: > >> > >> > I have a D-Link DI-624+ Wireless XtremeG Router. > >> > > >> > For some odd reason, computers hooked up to the router via WIRED > >> > ETHERNET > >> > connection can use the network perfectly fine. For the computers that > >> > are > >> > connected WIRELESSLY, they cannot see each other, or any other computer > >> > on > >> > the network. > >> > > >> > So... > >> > WIRED can see WIRED > >> > WIRELESS cannot see WIRED > >> > WIRED cannot see WIRELESS > >> > WIRELESS cannot see WIRELESS > >> > > >> > All computers do have internet access, and can access the routers > >> > settings > >> > by typing in the IP address of the router in IE. > >> > > >> > Any input would be much appreciated. > >> > > > > W Uphill wrote:
Show quoteHide quote > Sorry about the blank post! Despite your conviction otherwise, this really sounds like a firewall > > I have a similar problem to this that nothing has been able to resolve. > > I have 2 XP Pro SP2 machines and a Macintosh hard wired into a D-Link router > with a wireless access point. > > If I run 50 feet of Ethernet cable down the stairs and hook up my laptop, > the entire network works perfectly. All machines can see each other, use each > other's shares, etc. No problems at all. > > HOWEVER - if I restart the laptop using a wireless PC card adapter, the > laptop cannot see any machine on the network or use the shares. Ping by IP > address works from the laptop to all the others. Ping by name works from the > laptop to all the others. And the network contact is definitely being made, > as the laptop has good internet access. From the wired machines, the laptop > is occasionally visible, but not always. > > I have no third party software installed, and the Windows firewall is off on > all machines, as the router has a hardware firewall. > > Thing is, this USED to work perfectly - it stopped working suddenly halfway > through a wireless session for no apparent reason. If I restart everything, > and wire the laptop back directly into the router, the network is perfect > again. > > Any ideas? I have browsed the internet for weeks, tried all the diagnostics > and tests, and have found no solution that works. > > Any help gratefully received. > > "W Uphill" wrote: > >> >> "wong-lawre***@hotmail.com" wrote: >> >>> I have a D-Link DI-624+ Wireless XtremeG Router. >>> >>> For some odd reason, computers hooked up to the router via WIRED ETHERNET >>> connection can use the network perfectly fine. For the computers that are >>> connected WIRELESSLY, they cannot see each other, or any other computer on >>> the network. >>> >>> So... >>> WIRED can see WIRED >>> WIRELESS cannot see WIRED >>> WIRED cannot see WIRELESS >>> WIRELESS cannot see WIRELESS >>> >>> All computers do have internet access, and can access the routers settings >>> by typing in the IP address of the router in IE. >>> >>> Any input would be much appreciated. >>> issue. Windows firewall, for example, is applied and configured separately for each network connection (see the Advanced tab on the WF dialog). If that doesn't help, try http://winhlp.com/wxnet.htm and/or http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/expert/russel_diagnostics.mspx Thanks, Lem for your firewall suggestions, and the links. Been there, done
that! To restate my problem: I have a 3 machine XP Pro SP2 and Macintosh wired network, plugged into a D-Link 604T router with a wireless access point. Perfect network functionality. I also have a separate XP Pro SP2 laptop. If I use 50 feet of Ethernet cable and plug the laptop directly into the router, the network still works perfectly, with all 4 machines seeing each other and using each other's shares. No problems at all. If I unplug the cable, and restart the system with the laptop using the wireless access point, I can no longer access the shares on the wired machines. The workgroup becomes unavailable, as do all the items in My Network Places - the error message states that I might not have the right permissions and that the network path was not found. I have internet access, but not access to any network shares. This is a recent situation - the laptop used to work perfectly via the wireless access point. But then, mid-session, I simply lost wireless connectivity to shares on the network. I have never got it back in spite of two clean starts with fresh installations of Windows and all the hardware. There are no firewalls - all are disabled for now, till I solve this problem, except the hardware firewall in the router. Computer Browser on the laptop is disabled, to force one of the always-on wired machines into that role. The nodetype on the laptop is set to 8 Anti-malware software reports no problems. Neither Norton nor any other 3rd party firewall has ever been near any one of my machines. The router is the DHCP server, and assigns IP addresses dynamically in the range 192.168.1.2 - 254. Filesharing is on; Enable NetBios is on; TCP/IP is on and set to obtain IP addresses and everything else automatically. Settings for the wireless connection are identical to the settings for the wired connection. I have the latest firmware for the router, and can confirm that it is correctly allocating IP addresses to each computer by name, including the laptop. I have no WEP or WPA security set up at present, until this problem is solved. Everything works perfectly if the laptop is wired to the router. But NOT if it is using the WAP. What I CAN do on the laptop via the WAP: 1. Access the internet 2. Ping everyone from the laptop by IP address, but not by computer name. 3. Type IP addresses - but not names - into the address bar in My Computer and gain access to shared folders through the "back door" as it were. What I can do on the other machines: 1. Ping the laptop by IP address AND name 2. Enter IP address OR name into an address bar and gain access to shares, but the laptop does not show up in View Workgroup Computers (the usual error message) nor in My Network Places. Thus, all basic network functionality is clearly present. What is going wrong is something to do with IP address/name resolution - BUT ONLY when the WAP is being used and not when the laptop is wired. This has me utterly baffled - specifically because it all works when wired, and USED to work when the laptop was using the WAP - but now it doesn't. I have scoured the internet for a solution and so far found nothing that helps. You will also want to go into
control panel / add remove programs /add remove windows componets, and check to see that you have installed under network options... peer to peer networking. just another thought dennis Show quoteHide quote "W Uphill" <WUph***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:F9ECF79B-04B1-4A81-AC3D-7583F21CEBA9@microsoft.com... > Thanks, Lem for your firewall suggestions, and the links. Been there, done > that! > > To restate my problem: > > I have a 3 machine XP Pro SP2 and Macintosh wired network, plugged into a > D-Link 604T router with a wireless access point. Perfect network > functionality. > > I also have a separate XP Pro SP2 laptop. > > If I use 50 feet of Ethernet cable and plug the laptop directly into the > router, the network still works perfectly, with all 4 machines seeing each > other and using each other's shares. No problems at all. > > If I unplug the cable, and restart the system with the laptop using the > wireless access point, I can no longer access the shares on the wired > machines. The workgroup becomes unavailable, as do all the items in My > Network Places - the error message states that I might not have the right > permissions and that the network path was not found. I have internet > access, > but not access to any network shares. > > This is a recent situation - the laptop used to work perfectly via the > wireless access point. But then, mid-session, I simply lost wireless > connectivity to shares on the network. I have never got it back in spite > of > two clean starts with fresh installations of Windows and all the hardware. > > There are no firewalls - all are disabled for now, till I solve this > problem, except the hardware firewall in the router. > > Computer Browser on the laptop is disabled, to force one of the always-on > wired machines into that role. > > The nodetype on the laptop is set to 8 > > Anti-malware software reports no problems. Neither Norton nor any other > 3rd > party firewall has ever been near any one of my machines. > > The router is the DHCP server, and assigns IP addresses dynamically in the > range 192.168.1.2 - 254. > > Filesharing is on; Enable NetBios is on; TCP/IP is on and set to obtain IP > addresses and everything else automatically. Settings for the wireless > connection are identical to the settings for the wired connection. > > I have the latest firmware for the router, and can confirm that it is > correctly allocating IP addresses to each computer by name, including the > laptop. I have no WEP or WPA security set up at present, until this > problem > is solved. > > Everything works perfectly if the laptop is wired to the router. But NOT > if > it is using the WAP. > > What I CAN do on the laptop via the WAP: > > 1. Access the internet > 2. Ping everyone from the laptop by IP address, but not by computer name. > 3. Type IP addresses - but not names - into the address bar in My Computer > and gain access to shared folders through the "back door" as it were. > > What I can do on the other machines: > > 1. Ping the laptop by IP address AND name > 2. Enter IP address OR name into an address bar and gain access to shares, > but the laptop does not show up in View Workgroup Computers (the usual > error > message) nor in My Network Places. > > > Thus, all basic network functionality is clearly present. What is going > wrong is something to do with IP address/name resolution - BUT ONLY when > the > WAP is being used and not when the laptop is wired. > > This has me utterly baffled - specifically because it all works when > wired, > and USED to work when the laptop was using the WAP - but now it doesn't. > > I have scoured the internet for a solution and so far found nothing that > helps. > > 
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