Hello,

Can somebody help please? My Vista laptop can find the media shared on my
(wired) Vista desktop pc ok using the laptop's wired connection, but not
using the laptop's wireless connection. It used to work before using the
wireless connection (although not very reliabe). I don't know what's changed
but I can't get it to work again except using its wired connection.

I disabled the IPSec Policy Agent service as adviced by Vista help, but that
did not help and since I did not enable it in the first place I think it
worked ok with it enabled before.

I can see my laptop has limited IPv6 connectivity using its wireless
connection. The laptop and my desktop pc have local IPv6 connectivity using
their wired connection. And all have internet IPv4 connectivity using wired
or wireless connections. Does it need IPv6?

The wireless laptop card (an old Netgear WG511v1) uses an XP driver since
there is no Vista driver for it. But the XP driver works ok. It can connect
to the internet and to the shared folders on my desktop pc, but media sharing
does not work.

It would appear that in the media sharing dialog where you allow or deny
devices access to a shared media library that it uses a client's mac address
to identify a client. On my desktop pc I had two entries for my laptop, one
with its wired mac address and one with its wireless mac address. Proof that
it worked before. When I remove the laptop's wireless entry the desktop pc
never detects it again.

Can anyone help please?

kind regards

Remco

Can you ping the desktop by IP?

--
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Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on
http://www.ChicagoTech.net
How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on
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"Remco Blok" Remco wrote in message
...
Hello,

Can somebody help please? My Vista laptop can find the media shared on my
(wired) Vista desktop pc ok using the laptop's wired connection, but not
using the laptop's wireless connection. It used to work before using the
wireless connection (although not very reliabe). I don't know what's
changed
but I can't get it to work again except using its wired connection.

I disabled the IPSec Policy Agent service as adviced by Vista help, but
that
did not help and since I did not enable it in the first place I think it
worked ok with it enabled before.

I can see my laptop has limited IPv6 connectivity using its wireless
connection. The laptop and my desktop pc have local IPv6 connectivity
using
their wired connection. And all have internet IPv4 connectivity using
wired
or wireless connections. Does it need IPv6?

The wireless laptop card (an old Netgear WG511v1) uses an XP driver since
there is no Vista driver for it. But the XP driver works ok. It can
connect
to the internet and to the shared folders on my desktop pc, but media
sharing
does not work.

It would appear that in the media sharing dialog where you allow or deny
devices access to a shared media library that it uses a client's mac
address
to identify a client. On my desktop pc I had two entries for my laptop,
one
with its wired mac address and one with its wireless mac address. Proof
that
it worked before. When I remove the laptop's wireless entry the desktop pc
never detects it again.

Can anyone help please?

kind regards

Remco

yes.

"Robert L (MS-MVP)" wrote:

Can you ping the desktop by IP?

--
Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on
http://www.ChicagoTech.net
How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on
http://www.HowToNetworking.com


"Remco Blok" Remco wrote in message
...
Hello,

Can somebody help please? My Vista laptop can find the media shared on my
(wired) Vista desktop pc ok using the laptop's wired connection, but not
using the laptop's wireless connection. It used to work before using the
wireless connection (although not very reliabe). I don't know what's
changed
but I can't get it to work again except using its wired connection.

I disabled the IPSec Policy Agent service as adviced by Vista help, but
that
did not help and since I did not enable it in the first place I think it
worked ok with it enabled before.

I can see my laptop has limited IPv6 connectivity using its wireless
connection. The laptop and my desktop pc have local IPv6 connectivity
using
their wired connection. And all have internet IPv4 connectivity using
wired
or wireless connections. Does it need IPv6?

The wireless laptop card (an old Netgear WG511v1) uses an XP driver since
there is no Vista driver for it. But the XP driver works ok. It can
connect
to the internet and to the shared folders on my desktop pc, but media
sharing
does not work.

It would appear that in the media sharing dialog where you allow or deny
devices access to a shared media library that it uses a client's mac
address
to identify a client. On my desktop pc I had two entries for my laptop,
one
with its wired mac address and one with its wireless mac address. Proof
that
it worked before. When I remove the laptop's wireless entry the desktop pc
never detects it again.

Can anyone help please?

kind regards

Remco