Setting up a wired+wireless network.....

[rictus01]

Fine, got furniture moving guys in this morning, so I'll leave it to you.

Cheers Mark.

[rictus01]

Oh and I'll have a fiver on windows permissions at this stage..........

Originally Posted by Baph

PMs received, and in order to keep everyone else in the loop, both machines IP addresses are 192.168.2.x, and subnet is as expected (255.255.255.0).

Next step, disable the firewall on both machines (not router), and if you're running either Symantec or Norton security software, disable them & reboot.

Then test again.

How are you trying to connect to them? Simply viewing them in Network Neighbourhood? Or via \\computername\share ?

Just going out for my run (training for marathon would you believe) I'll be back in about an hour and half. Will do all above when I get back.
Cheers guys!

Originally Posted by rictus01

Oh and I'll have a fiver on windows permissions at this stage..........

I'll have 25p on the problem being the belkin kit

[Bibio]

ermmm. sorry to be so obvious ... but you have you set the folders you want to browse on either computer to 'share'? 'right click on the folder you want to share then select sharing and security'

you wont see nowt if you dont...

All done....I think...it was the obvious 'file sharing then mapping', as I said...it's all new to me, but at least I learned something new!! the only thing left is how secure are the drives? At no point was I prompted to enter passwords to protect the folders/drives. I take it the fact that my network is protected with a network key would suffice.

Anyway,thanks for all the help guys.

[Dave20046]

Originally Posted by 5v5 rider

All done....I think...it was the obvious 'file sharing then mapping', as I said...it's all new to me, but at least I learned something new!! the only thing left is how secure are the drives? At no point was I prompted to enter passwords to protect the folders/drives. I take it the fact that my network is protected with a network key would suffice.

Anyway,thanks for all the help guys.

Disable broadcast SSID (just make sure you've set a memorable SSID or you'll irritate yourself with it!). Should stop anyone parking up with a laptop or your neighbours knowing you have wireless. There's other steps you can take if the stuff's really sensitive but wifi isn't very secure in general.

Originally Posted by Dave20046

Disable broadcast SSID (just make sure you've set a memorable SSID or you'll irritate yourself with it!). Should stop anyone parking up with a laptop or your neighbours knowing you have wireless.

No, it won't. It really won't.

But yes, disable SSID broadcast anyway - I forgot that in my PM, apologies.

[Dave20046]

Originally Posted by Baph

No, it won't. It really won't.

But yes, disable SSID broadcast anyway - I forgot that in my PM, apologies.

Why does it show up on the 'view wireless networks' list anyway?
I thought you'd need net stumbler or alike to detect it.

Originally Posted by Dave20046

Why does it show up on the 'view wireless networks' list anyway?
I thought you'd need net stumbler or alike to detect it.

It doesn't list by default, but you can 'tweak' Windows to make it list networks without SSID's.

My point was more that it wouldn't hide the network, purely because of applications like Netstumbler. Though of course a neighbour could find it if they setup a network on the same channel.