Help me .. Networking wired desktop with wifi laptop win xp via BT 2091 voyager

jpe20

Hi folks,

I am unexpectedly having trouble setting up my wireless laptop to do file and print sharing with my desktop (wired). Both machines connect to the internet ok (laptop - wirelessly, desktop - wired).

Setup is as follows .....

(1) Wi-Fi Router BT Voyager 2091 - Gateway [192.168.1.1]
(2) Desktop PC (WinXP-SP2) [192.168.1.2] Connected via ethernet cable
(3) New laptop (IntelPRO wireless) -WinXP MCE 2005 [192.168.1.3] connected wirelessly

Seems that with this mixed wired/wireless setup I cannot setup these two machines to see one another!!! I have tried both the wireless net setup wiz and the normal network setup wiz to no avail.

Any pointers??

Jools

PS Is the Windows Wireless Zero Config service vital??? -- I think it is turned off and I am using the defauly INTEL PRO WIRELESS Driver software instead. I could not connect to the internet unless I use this INTEL software.

cledor

It is most likely that any firewalls you have are causing this. Try to shut down all the firewalls and see what happens.

Reading this site may help http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/expert/russel_hni.mspx

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Browntoa

yes, the firwalls need to allow all traffic via your network cards

Browntoa

this was the problem on mine

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/318030