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L.B. Beurmann
June 16th 03, 08:17 PM
I am running windows XP home on 2 computers. Right now I
have my cable modem hooked up to a hub near my television
so that I can connect my Replay TV to the internet. Also
on the hub is a netgear 802.11 wireless access point. on
each of my computers I have a netgear wireless network
adapter. Each of the computers is able to connect to the
internet without a problem, but I can't connect them to
each other or share files or the printer. the ip
addresses are assigned by DHCP and are 192.168.0.2 and
192.168.0.3 and both are on the same subnet mask of
255.255.255.0. when i run the network setup wizard on
the 192.168.0.2 computer it works fine, but when i try to
run it on the other one during the last step it tells me
that there was an error and says to configure my network
manually. i selected the same things that i did for the
other computer (that my computer connects to the internet
though a hub and so do the others, wireless network, gave
the computers different names, used the same network
name) but on one it works and the other it doesn't. i
have disabled the xp firewalls on both computers and have
enalbed netbios over tcp/ip on both computers. each
computer is able to ping itself, but not the other one,
and neither shows up in the others network places. I am
really at a loss and extremely frustrated. I checked out
all the help on Steve Winograd's page and have been
unable to find a solution. Any help would be appreciated.
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Steve Winograd
June 18th 03, 07:56 AM
In article >, "L.B. Beurmann"
> wrote:
>I am running windows XP home on 2 computers. Right now I
>have my cable modem hooked up to a hub near my television
>so that I can connect my Replay TV to the internet. Also
>on the hub is a netgear 802.11 wireless access point. on
>each of my computers I have a netgear wireless network
>adapter. Each of the computers is able to connect to the
>internet without a problem, but I can't connect them to
>each other or share files or the printer. the ip
>addresses are assigned by DHCP and are 192.168.0.2 and
>192.168.0.3 and both are on the same subnet mask of
>255.255.255.0. when i run the network setup wizard on
>the 192.168.0.2 computer it works fine, but when i try to
>run it on the other one during the last step it tells me
>that there was an error and says to configure my network
>manually. i selected the same things that i did for the
>other computer (that my computer connects to the internet
>though a hub and so do the others, wireless network, gave
>the computers different names, used the same network
>name) but on one it works and the other it doesn't. i
>have disabled the xp firewalls on both computers and have
>enalbed netbios over tcp/ip on both computers. each
>computer is able to ping itself, but not the other one,
>and neither shows up in the others network places. I am
>really at a loss and extremely frustrated. I checked out
>all the help on Steve Winograd's page and have been
>unable to find a solution. Any help would be appreciated.

I'm having some trouble understanding your network setup, L.B. You
say that you have a wireless access point. Then, you say that it lets
both computers connect to the Internet, which isn't something that a
wireless access point can do. Is it actually a winless router?
What's its model number?

If it's a wireless router, then you've chosen the wrong option in the
network setup wizard. The wizard calls a router a "residential
gateway", so you should pick that option, not the "hub" option.

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Steve Winograd
June 18th 03, 08:29 AM
In article >, Steve
Winograd > wrote:
>I'm having some trouble understanding your network setup, L.B. You
>say that you have a wireless access point. Then, you say that it lets
>both computers connect to the Internet, which isn't something that a
>wireless access point can do. Is it actually a winless router?
>What's its model number?

Oops, I made a mistake in my spell checker. That should say "Is it
actually a wireless router?". Sorry.
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Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

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