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Old March 24th 12, 05:44 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Char Jackson
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Default The network path was not found.

On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 23:21:01 -0500, Paul in Houston TX
wrote:

Char Jackson wrote:
On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 17:45:17 -0500, Paul in Houston TX
wrote:

Char Jackson wrote:
On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 17:52:05 -0500, Paul in Houston TX
wrote:

FrankQ wrote:
I set up a small-office/home network with two computers.

Both have the windows firewall off.

They access the internet wia a router with a fireewall.

View workgroup members shows the two computers.

But when I click the remote computer icon I get:

\\Two is not available...
The network path was not found.

What does that mean.

Did it get to the remote computer and not find a path or not find the path
to the remote computer?

I've created similar usenames and passwords on both machines and am logged
in with that username.

Any suggestions?
Router could be blocking.
Not likely, and not applicable if both computers are connected to
router's LAN ports. The LAN ports are just a switch, not a router.

Can you ping each other from both ends?
Good question.
My D-Link DI-707P can block traffic from LAN or WAN.
It can block LAN while allowing WAN, or vice versa.
It blocks IP addresses, address ranges, and / or ports.


None of that applies to this discussion, though.

I just read through the Datasheet
ftp://ftp10.dlink.com/pdfs/products/DI-707P/DI-707P_ds.pdf

and the Quick Installation Guide
ftp://ftp.dlink.com/Gateway/di707P/QIG/di-707P_QIG_110.pdf

and the User Manual
ftp://ftp.dlink.de/di/di-707p/documentation/DI-707P_man_en_Manual-110.pdf

and I don't see any mention of the capability to isolate one or more
LAN hosts from other LAN hosts. In other words, this device appears to
incorporate a standard 8-port switch, with one port dedicated to WAN
duties and the remaining 7 ports dedicated to LAN duties. Internally,
they use VLANs to achieve this separation, but they don't expose that
through the GUI.

Am I missing the capability to isolate LAN users from each other?


Well how interesting!
No where in the manuals does it show the Firewall.
On mine there is a button labeled "Firewall" between
Filter and SNMP that is not in the manual but in
the machine firmware. It enables Firewall rules
for LAN, WAN, deny, allow, addresses, ports, etc.
My DI screenshot:
http://i42.tinypic.com/11jbtd5.jpg
I don't know how many rules I can have.
At the moment I have two active including denying
192.###.###.### from connecting to this machine.
Also denying a specific WAN address.


That's not going to be able to affect traffic between LAN-connected
hosts. Instead, it deals only with WAN-LAN and LAN-WAN traffic.
There's nothing there about LAN-LAN.

Another clue is that the firewall is IP-based, and the router's LAN
ports don't have or use IP's. They operate at Layer 2 (MAC address)
rather than Layer 3 (IP address).

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