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April 21st 08, 06:28 PM
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strange setup
Hello.
My sister and her niece both have laptops, both with Vista, both inbuilt wireless connecting to the internet by way of a wireless D-Link dls router. The first thing that is odd is that when viewing the map on both laptops, my sister's connection is via my niece's. ie. Sister NieceRouterInternet. And yet we can't work out how that happened or how to fix it. Both laptops were setup in the same way. Looked for available networks, found the router, connected having used WEP keys for both. The other thing is, which probably is because of question 1, is that they can't see each other at all. They both have Network Discovery enabled, Both have stuff in their public folders. and even those are shared to be sure. what to do? Thank you J 
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April 21st 08, 10:11 PM
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strange setup
Hi
Connection via would mean that the laptop would need the other one to be On in order to connect to the Internet. Switch Off the Niece laptop and see what would happen. As for sharing, successful Sharing involves some general consideration in Network settings, http://www.ezlan.net/sharing.html As well as specific adjustment of each computer according to what it is allowed to be shared. Vista File and Printer Sharing- http://www.microsoft.com/technet/net.../vista_fp.mspx Windows XP File Sharing - http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;304040 Printer Sharing XP - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...utt_july2.mspx Windows Native Firewall setting for Sharing XP - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/875357 Windows XP patch for Sharing with Vista - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922120 Jack (MVP-Networking). "JB" somehow@somewhere wrote in message ... Hello. My sister and her niece both have laptops, both with Vista, both inbuilt wireless connecting to the internet by way of a wireless D-Link dls router. The first thing that is odd is that when viewing the map on both laptops, my sister's connection is via my niece's. ie. Sister NieceRouterInternet. And yet we can't work out how that happened or how to fix it. Both laptops were setup in the same way. Looked for available networks, found the router, connected having used WEP keys for both. The other thing is, which probably is because of question 1, is that they can't see each other at all. They both have Network Discovery enabled, Both have stuff in their public folders. and even those are shared to be sure. what to do? Thank you J
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April 22nd 08, 05:06 PM
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strange setup
Thanks Jack.
That's the weird thing, when my niece's laptop is off, the connection is fine. I've taken my laptop over to see and the same thing happens. I will look at the stuff you sent. In the meantime I made a mistake with the map, it is sister (and me)routernieceinternet thanks J "Jack (MVP-Networking)." wrote in message ... Hi Connection via would mean that the laptop would need the other one to be On in order to connect to the Internet. Switch Off the Niece laptop and see what would happen. As for sharing, successful Sharing involves some general consideration in Network settings, http://www.ezlan.net/sharing.html As well as specific adjustment of each computer according to what it is allowed to be shared. Vista File and Printer Sharing- http://www.microsoft.com/technet/net.../vista_fp.mspx Windows XP File Sharing - http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;304040 Printer Sharing XP - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...utt_july2.mspx Windows Native Firewall setting for Sharing XP - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/875357 Windows XP patch for Sharing with Vista - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922120 Jack (MVP-Networking). "JB" somehow@somewhere wrote in message ... Hello. My sister and her niece both have laptops, both with Vista, both inbuilt wireless connecting to the internet by way of a wireless D-Link dls router. The first thing that is odd is that when viewing the map on both laptops, my sister's connection is via my niece's. ie. Sister NieceRouterInternet. And yet we can't work out how that happened or how to fix it. Both laptops were setup in the same way. Looked for available networks, found the router, connected having used WEP keys for both. The other thing is, which probably is because of question 1, is that they can't see each other at all. They both have Network Discovery enabled, Both have stuff in their public folders. and even those are shared to be sure. what to do? Thank you J
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April 26th 08, 07:47 PM
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strange setup/ update
Worked out why they couldn't share.
It was the AVG firewall. Although it is set to accept the network, it was blocking everything. So I disabled it and that did the trick, and so we've enabled the Vista firewall . The only thing that is a problem is this strange setup to the internet. When my sister is the only one switched on, she has no troubles at all and is connected the whole time. As soon as my niece switches her laptop on, she stands between the router and the internet, and my sisters connection keeps cutting out, and the only thing she can do is disable the network card and re enable it and this goes on as long as my niece is switched on. Very odd Thank you for any help here "JB" somehow@somewhere wrote in message ... Thanks Jack. That's the weird thing, when my niece's laptop is off, the connection is fine. I've taken my laptop over to see and the same thing happens. I will look at the stuff you sent. In the meantime I made a mistake with the map, it is sister (and me)routernieceinternet thanks J "Jack (MVP-Networking)." wrote in message ... Hi Connection via would mean that the laptop would need the other one to be On in order to connect to the Internet. Switch Off the Niece laptop and see what would happen. As for sharing, successful Sharing involves some general consideration in Network settings, http://www.ezlan.net/sharing.html As well as specific adjustment of each computer according to what it is allowed to be shared. Vista File and Printer Sharing- http://www.microsoft.com/technet/net.../vista_fp.mspx Windows XP File Sharing - http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;304040 Printer Sharing XP - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...utt_july2.mspx Windows Native Firewall setting for Sharing XP - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/875357 Windows XP patch for Sharing with Vista - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922120 Jack (MVP-Networking). "JB" somehow@somewhere wrote in message ... Hello. My sister and her niece both have laptops, both with Vista, both inbuilt wireless connecting to the internet by way of a wireless D-Link dls router. The first thing that is odd is that when viewing the map on both laptops, my sister's connection is via my niece's. ie. Sister NieceRouterInternet. And yet we can't work out how that happened or how to fix it. Both laptops were setup in the same way. Looked for available networks, found the router, connected having used WEP keys for both. The other thing is, which probably is because of question 1, is that they can't see each other at all. They both have Network Discovery enabled, Both have stuff in their public folders. and even those are shared to be sure. what to do? Thank you J
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