> I have a 2 wire wireless dsl router.  I have a direct connection to it
> from
> my main PC.  My amin PC also has the printer attached to it. I have 3
> other
> PC's connected via the wireless lan.  I have ran the home networking
> applicaton, loaded the file on a thumb drive, and ran it on all of the
> PC's. None of them can see my main PC but, it appears the wireless
> PC's can see
> each other.  How do I configure this as a Hybrid wireline/wireless
> network?
>
>  What do I have to do to share the printer and/or files between all of
>  the
> PC's.

"Malke" wrote:

> Mark Farrell wrote:
>
> > I have a 2 wire wireless dsl router.  I have a direct connection to it
> > from
> > my main PC.  My amin PC also has the printer attached to it. I have 3
> > other
> > PC's connected via the wireless lan.  I have ran the home networking
> > applicaton, loaded the file on a thumb drive, and ran it on all of the
> > PC's. None of them can see my main PC but, it appears the wireless
> > PC's can see
> > each other.  How do I configure this as a Hybrid wireline/wireless
> > network?
> >
> >  What do I have to do to share the printer and/or files between all of
> >  the
> > PC's.
>
> This really doesn't have anything to do with wireless/wired. If all the
> machines can get to the Internet, your wireless is set up correctly
> with the 2Wire. Now you need to iron out your local area network
> sharing. See this cut/paste about common networking problems:
>
> This is most commonly caused by a misconfigured firewall. Run the
> Network Setup Wizard on all computers, making sure to enable File &
> Printer Sharing, and reboot. The only "gotcha" is that this will turn
> on the XPSP2 Windows Firewall. If you aren't running a third-party
> firewall or have an antivirus with "Internet Worm Protection" (like
> Norton 2005/06) which acts as a firewall, then you're fine. If you have
> third-party firewall software, configure it to allow the Local Area
> Network traffic as trusted. I usually do this with my firewalls with an
> IP range. Ex. would be 192.168.1.0-192.168.1.254. Obviously you would
> substitute your correct subnet.
>
> If one or more of the computers is XP Pro:
>
> a. If you need Pro's ability to set fine-grained permissions, turn off
> Simple File Sharing (Folder Options>View tab) and create identical user
> accounts/passwords on all computers.
>
> b. If you don't care about using Pro's advanced features, leave the
> Simple File Sharing enabled.
>
> Simple File Sharing means that Guest (network) is enabled. This means
> that anyone without a user account on the target system can use its
> resources. This is a security hole but only you can decide if it
> matters in your situation.
>
> Then create shares as desired. XP Home does not permit sharing of users'
> home directories (My Documents) or Program Files, but you can share
> folders inside those directories. A better choice is to simply use the
> Shared Documents folder.
>
> If that doesn't work for you, here is an excellent network
> troubleshooter by MVP Hans-Georg Michna. Take the time to go through it
> and it will usually pinpoint the problem area(s) -
> http://winhlp.com/wxnet.htm
>
> Malke
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