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TINY

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Alright people.

I'm trying too set-up a home network, from the desktop PC to a Laptop, both wireless. I wanted to connect both computers so I can transfer files/folders between each computer. Now I've been trying to do this for the past few hours and I'm getting nowhere fast. I've had a look on Google but all I can get is the best things to use for this, I.E which router to use etc. Not a lot of help seen as though I have the router, network cards etc.

SO...can anyone give me a hand, or a step-by-step guide? Cheers in adcance.
 
What have you done so far mate?

Download network stumbler, its free and should tell you whether your wirless adaptors are working, enabled and can see each other:
http://www.netstumbler.com/downloads/

Do your wireless drivers allow windows to control them or only their own software?

My mate put a wireless card in his desktop pc, the card came with some software call Soft-AP (software access point) and that allows him to access the net on his laptop via the pc although it refused to work with any kind of security settings enabled and so is open to anybody.
 
Plank (me)! Ive just reread your post and realised you're using a router.

Are both pc's successfully connected to the router and are you using fixed IP addresses or DHCP?
 
if you're using BT internet you'll need a modem router, ntl or similar broadband providers such as telewest only need a dsl router (the cheaper ones usually)

if the computers connect then you might need to make sure the ip configuration on them is correct, im assuming you have the computer connected to the router using ethernet cables and the laptop is connecting wirelessly?

if not you will have to do this, you always need one device hard-wired to the router so that if anything goes wrong you can diagnose if it's a fault with the wireless setup or if the internet connection itself is to blame for the failure.

as musampa says, would be easier to help if you tell us if the computers connect or not wirelessly, the router manufacturer would help aswell, and even better the ip address the router assigns your laptop if they do connect (usually starts with 192.168.2.*** the *s being independent to each router, for example belkin routers give out ip addresses 192.168.2.2 up to 192.186.2.100 by default)
 
Alright mate cheers for the response's. Thats the thing...I'm not too sure if both are connected 'rightly'.

Both obviously use the router to connect to the t'internet. And if I go too, Network Connections > Wireless Network Connection > Right Click > Properties > Wireless Networks > And underneath 'Preferred Networks' there is something I set up earlier, called Bedroom, which is what I called the network when I tried to use XP's connection wizard. If ANY of that made sense!?

If you have time, and know how too, could you go through a step-by-step from the beginning...if you have time!! lol

Cheers again
 
The router is Linksys, and the Desktop PC is connected via Ethernet directly to the router, and the laptop is wirelessly connected. That help? Oh and I think you mean http://192.168.1.1/ which is what I type into the browser if I want to edit the router settings.
 
TINY said:
The router is Linksys, and the Desktop PC is connected via Ethernet directly to the router, and the laptop is wirelessly connected. That help?
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Can both pcs access the internet but not fileshare with each other?
 
Right does the wireless internet connection show up as active?

If so try this:

Go to Start>Connect To...>Show All Connections

Right click wireless network connection and click properties

in the box in the middle go to Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)

click properties again

set both options to "obtain address automatically"

this is assuming your isp hasn't give you a fixed IP to use, it was affecting my setup a day or so ago and this fixed it

good luck ;-)
 
Well both can connect to the internet with no problems. And I'm not too sure about filesharing, simply because I'm not too sure where I would look, or how I would go about trying to fileshare? Cheers.
 
bjones371 said:
Right does the wireless internet connection show up as active?

If so try this:

Go to Start>Connect To...>Show All Connections

Right click wireless network connection and click properties

in the box in the middle go to Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)

click properties again

set both options to "obtain address automatically"

this is assuming your isp hasn't give you a fixed IP to use, it was affecting my setup a day or so ago and this fixed it

good luck ;-)
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Already set to "obtain address automatically" mate, cheers.
 
i remember last time i tried setting up an ad-hoc network between laptop and pc, i gave up lol

from what i could understand the router isn't necessary for an ad-hoc network, only infrastructure

both the pc and the laptop have wireless adapters of some form obviously, try using the network setup wizard to setup a home or small office network on the desktop pc and use the wireless adaptor to broadcast the network name, this should set it all up for you supposedly but i had no joy, maybe it was just me though lol

hopefully you'll be able to search for wireless networks on the laptop and find the ad-hoc connection and connect up to it, making it a case of adding files to shared documents and accessing them of the laptop

it never seems to work perfect though but it's worth a pop
 
forgot to say though mate if this does work it means that you won't be able to fileshare and access the net at the same time, when connected to the router you can get online and when connected directly to the pc via ad-hoc you'll only be able to fileshare assuming it works
 
TINY said:
Well both can connect to the internet with no problems. And I'm not too sure about filesharing, simply because I'm not too sure where I would look, or how I would go about trying to fileshare? Cheers.
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Right, sounds like both are connected to the router ok. Disable firewalls on both pc's (you should be ok behind your router anyway), goto network connections and run the Network Setup wizard and make sure you assign the same workgroup name on both pc's and enable filesharing.

Then on Windows explorer goto My Network Places > Microsoft windos network > 'your workgroup name' and you should be able to see the other pc's shared folder.

I have a linksys router in exactly he same setup as you (wired to the desktop, wireless to the laptop) and use filesharing all the time but have found it is more reliable with fixed IP addresses (by default your pcs IP adresses will be assigned by the router and can change whenever you reboot one of the pc's).
 
You fucking beauty!

At last they're connected! You have no idea how many times I've attempted to do that lol Did that what you said last (have done that before) it asked me to restart the computer, so I did, then disabled the firewall. Did the same on the laptop and went to network places, and heyho, there is my desktop PC. Fuckin beauty.

Cheers for the help lads!

TINY.
 
Glad to have helped mate. Re the firewall issue, your linksys provides a hardware firewall though if you goto Sheilds Up (see Computer Security thread) you might find one port (IDENT) visible, the way to shut it is to set up a rule in the router and untick the enable box.
 
Everything shows up stealth etc, same as this afternoon when I checked. So looks like its all secure. Thanks again mate!
 
Good stuff, I still find it useful to use software like zonealarm so that you get to grant or deny permission for anything wanting outbound access the internet.
 
I connect to a neighbours network, they dont notice or dont care, i dont have access to their files etc and vice versa plus it doesnt cost me anything...technically illegal and annoying when they turn it off but suits me.

Sssh
 
We have our own but when I'm out and about i always search for any unsecured and connect if i can, it doesn't do any harm and i don't steal files etc so i can't see the problem really

but again, shhhh ;-)
 
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