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Old March 23rd 12, 05:18 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Char Jackson
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Default The network path was not found.

On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 22:43:56 -0500, VanguardLH wrote:

Char Jackson wrote:

Paul wrote:

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.


Not true. Some routers have the feature that the intranet hosts
connected to the router can get Internet access but not access to the
other intranet hosts. Just because your family is sharing Internet
access through a router doesn't mean you want your kid getting network
access to your at-home business computer.

If you don't have a strong password to your router that only you know
along with restricting physical access to the router so only you can
access then who knows what the kids have been doing to reset or
reconfigure it. Strong password to limit who can configure the router,
physical access restriction to limit who can reset the router.

While the input side of a router is a switch, many switches can control
inter-port connections. A router, if capable, can permit external-only
connects (from LAN port to WAN port) but block inter-host connects (from
LAN port to LAN port). I now have a low-end Linksys router that doesn't
have that feature but remember a prior D-Link router that did. That way
all my family's hosts would get Internet access but they couldn't get at
my host.


I haven't seen that feature applied to the wired ports on a NAT
router, although it's fairly common to see it applied between wireless
connections and wired connections, which wouldn't apply here.

Do you have a specific example of a common NAT router that has the
capability you described? I'd like to skim through its manual to learn
more about it.

Third party firmware, like dd-wrt, can accomplish it, but I wasn't
assuming the presence of third party firmware in the OP's case.

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