Problems with networking

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MeatBridge

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Currently I've been trying to network my mom's laptop with my desktop, mainly so shr can print off my computer. I have tried everything I can think of and still cannot get either computer to see each otherexcept for onr time, I could see the desktop from the laptop but not vice versa, and ever since I closed that window they haven't seen each other. They both are running XP but laptop is home and desktop is pro. They're connected through a netgear rt314 router.

I have checked to make sure both are in same workgroup, enabled netbios, run through the setup wizard 300 timesand entered the routers ip range into both firewalls as trusted zones, yet still when I ping the other computer it has 100% packet loss.


Any advice would great.

TIA
 
Fist of all click START - SEARCH - COMPUTERS OR PEOPLE - A COMPUTER NO THE NETWORK - then click search without typing anything, see what comes up.
 
is the router connected to the internet, if so can you connect to the web
what are the ip addresses of all the machines, and what is the ip address of your router?
That may help is gain an idea of what is wrong?
Are you certrain that they are all on the same workgroup, and that they all have unique names.
 
if you are sure of all of those things try START - RUN - type "cmd", hit enter - type"ipconfig /renew" (without quotes obviously). Wait for the renew command to execute and see what happens then.
 
On the computers the ips are between 192.168.0.2 and 198.168.0.5. The ip to get to my router is .1, which is also part of a trusted network.

I just thought of something, should I enter the external address of my router into the trusted network?

If so how do I find it?

Edit: I just added my external ip into the firewallls and it still won't connect.

2nd edit: Yes both computers have internet access.
 
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1)is the default gateway for all your machines 192.168.0.1?

2)you should not need to set the external address anywhere

3)can you ping any of the other machines or the router?

4)can you access the web from all the machines?

5) what router is it?

6) are your ips assigned by dchp on the router?

edit: can see your edit responding to web access, disregard my second request
 
take all the firewalls down, including the one on the router. See if that works

if it does you know where your problem is
 
1. Yes that is the default gateway for all machines.

3. Can't ping other computer or router from my desktop but the laptop can ping the router but not the desktop, maybe something is misconfigured on my desktop?

5. Its a Netgear Rt314

6. Yes the router assigns ips by dhcp.
 
I finally got some pings through!!

I set multicast on router to on and disabled my firewall on my desktop and now it works.

Not sure what multicast is but it appears to fix the problem, plus on desktop firewall I forgot to alow network and pings ont he trusted network, doh!


Thanks for all your help guys!!



Grrrr so it,s not totally fixed yet, I got the desktop to work with the Laptop printer but the laptop won't see the desktop


any ideas?
 
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i had the same problem, it's all in the firewall settings. your firewall is blocking your computers from networking. first, try unpluging your internet (if brodband or ext...)
and then, disable both firewalls. now see if it works. if so, post back here. (remember to enable your firewalls first).
 
if your using zonealarm, change to sygate. zonealarm, the free one, doesnt handle ics. took me 2 weeks to figure this out. syagte is brilliant
 
I'am using zonealarm and Kerio, I'm not trying to share the internet connection just swap some file and share my desktops printer.

But here's an update, I got the laptop to see the desktop, but I needed a user name and password to be able to get to it's printer, and then I had to shut the laptop down and the desktop was gone.

I was able to share some files which is good because right now im reloading the desktop to see if maybe that will help, (plus its been needing it for awhile) so I'll see what new problems arise frome this.
 
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