I've done that ... BUT ... the resources on the remote computer are still
not accessible, though they themselves believe they are shared.

What am I doing wrong?


"Lem" lemp40@unknownhost wrote in message
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Uolricus te Erlake wrote:
Well this isn't entirely clear. There's a 50-foot cable between the two
routers, and, initially, I wanted a wireless link, but, having now routed
a cable between office and lab, I merely want to use the added ports on
the second router. If that's using it as a switch, that's now now it's
configured. However, the problem persists. I have disabled the
downstream router's DHCP, so, presumably, the first router will
distribute NAT addresses.

Is that what I should have done?


"Malke" wrote in message
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Uolricus te Erlake wrote:

I have two routers and a cable modem with several computers. However,
the
machine colocated with the cable modem can't "see" the ones downstream,
though they can "see" (at least PING) it. I thought I set up the
network
identically on each machine but don't even have a network access icon
in
the taskbar on that one machine.

None of the machines "see" each other in Network Neighborhood, nor do
they
"see" what's in their workgroup. They have, of course, been assigned
to
the same workgroup.
Why do you have two routers? If you have two routers, I would expect the
results to be exactly as they are - two separate networks.

If what you really want the second router for is more wireless coverage,
you
need to turn off DHCP on one of the routers and turn it into a wireless
access point instead or if wireless isn't desired disable that
capability in
the router as well as DHCP and just use it as a switch.

Then all machines will be on the same network and can share
files/printers.

Malke
--
MS-MVP
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Yes, with the caveat that the cable from router 1 to router 2 must connect
to one of router 2's LAN ports. Leave the WAN/Internet port on router 2
open. You might also want to configure router 2's LAN-facing IP to be in
the same subnet used by router 1's DHCP server but outside the range of
addresses allocated by that DHCP server.

--
Lem -- MS-MVP

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