Wireless network Setup Wizard SSID Contains 1 or more invalid char

22 Oct 2006 3:10 AM

Danny

I recently clean installed windows XP Home on both my desktop and notebook
computers. After the usual driver issues and a few visits to windows update
I've managed to get just about everything back in order. Both computers
connect to the wireless router I have and work fine on the internet, but I
cannot get either of them to "see" each other on the network to share files.
I've tried using the wireless network setup wizard, and it works fine on my
desktop, but when I try to enter the network name ( ssid ) on my laptop I
keep getting an error message " The network name ( ssid ) contains 1 or more
characters that are not valid. Please type a different network name." I've
tried everything I can think of. On my desktop I just named it network01, on
the laptop I've tried combinations of letters and numbers, just letters, just
numbers, only a few characters, 32 characters. No matter what I do I get the
same error message.
Any help?????

22 Oct 2006 4:48 PM

Jack (MVP-Networking).

Hi
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).

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"Danny" <Da***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:18F7FA53-B9E0-4A7E-8683-88982416133B@microsoft.com...
>I recently clean installed windows XP Home on both my desktop and notebook
> computers. After the usual driver issues and a few visits to windows
> update
> I've managed to get just about everything back in order. Both computers
> connect to the wireless router I have and work fine on the internet, but I
> cannot get either of them to "see" each other on the network to share
> files.
> I've tried using the wireless network setup wizard, and it works fine on
> my
> desktop, but when I try to enter the network name ( ssid ) on my laptop I
> keep getting an error message " The network name ( ssid ) contains 1 or
> more
> characters that are not valid. Please type a different network name."
> I've
> tried everything I can think of. On my desktop I just named it network01,
> on
> the laptop I've tried combinations of letters and numbers, just letters,
> just
> numbers, only a few characters, 32 characters. No matter what I do I get
> the
> same error message.
> Any help?????

23 Oct 2006 12:55 AM

David Hettel

I believe you have your terminology maybe mix up. SSID would be the name of
the wireless network, if this name is invalid then your notebook could not
connect to the wireless router or the internet through the router
wirelessly. If you are referring to the Workgroup name, this should be only
the letters A to Z, a to z, and numbers 0 to 9, no spaces and no
punctuation. For computer to see each other they must use the same workgroup
name. So you could use MyWorkgroup or HomeOffice but shouldn't use My
Workgroup, or My! Workgroup#$. Also be sure to check out the pages Jack gave
you.

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"Danny" <Da***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:18F7FA53-B9E0-4A7E-8683-88982416133B@microsoft.com...
>I recently clean installed windows XP Home on both my desktop and notebook
> computers. After the usual driver issues and a few visits to windows
> update
> I've managed to get just about everything back in order. Both computers
> connect to the wireless router I have and work fine on the internet, but I
> cannot get either of them to "see" each other on the network to share
> files.
> I've tried using the wireless network setup wizard, and it works fine on
> my
> desktop, but when I try to enter the network name ( ssid ) on my laptop I
> keep getting an error message " The network name ( ssid ) contains 1 or
> more
> characters that are not valid. Please type a different network name."
> I've
> tried everything I can think of. On my desktop I just named it network01,
> on
> the laptop I've tried combinations of letters and numbers, just letters,
> just
> numbers, only a few characters, 32 characters. No matter what I do I get
> the
> same error message.
> Any help?????

23 Oct 2006 1:20 AM

Pavel A.

"David Hettel" wrote:
> I believe you have your terminology maybe mix up. SSID would be the name of
> the wireless network, if this name is invalid then your notebook could not
> connect to the wireless router or the internet through the router
> wirelessly. If you are referring to the Workgroup name, this should be only
> the letters A to Z, a to z, and numbers 0 to 9, no spaces and no
> punctuation. For computer to see each other they must use the same workgroup
> name. So you could use MyWorkgroup or HomeOffice but shouldn't use My
> Workgroup, or My! Workgroup#$. Also be sure to check out the pages Jack gave
> you.

How all that explains what exactly invalid characters are in the string
"network01" ?

--PA

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> "Danny" <Da***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:18F7FA53-B9E0-4A7E-8683-88982416133B@microsoft.com...
> >I recently clean installed windows XP Home on both my desktop and notebook
> > computers. After the usual driver issues and a few visits to windows
> > update
> > I've managed to get just about everything back in order. Both computers
> > connect to the wireless router I have and work fine on the internet, but I
> > cannot get either of them to "see" each other on the network to share
> > files.
> > I've tried using the wireless network setup wizard, and it works fine on
> > my
> > desktop, but when I try to enter the network name ( ssid ) on my laptop I
> > keep getting an error message " The network name ( ssid ) contains 1 or
> > more
> > characters that are not valid. Please type a different network name."
> > I've
> > tried everything I can think of. On my desktop I just named it network01,
> > on
> > the laptop I've tried combinations of letters and numbers, just letters,
> > just
> > numbers, only a few characters, 32 characters. No matter what I do I get
> > the
> > same error message.
> > Any help?????
>
>
>