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May 7th, 2006 13:00
satellit modem & networking
Hello:
To begin, i just got satellit internet thru wildblue friday & i have a wireless router. i have 3 computers running thru the router, 2 r wired with ethernet & the laptop is wireless.
All computer can get on the internet fine, the problem is this, i can not network any of them.
I have the internet properties set at obtain ip addresses automatically & dns too. before i got
this satellit service i had them networked fine, but when i change the internet properties inthe
tcp/ip use the following ip address & so on, it still dont share or get on the internet.
I need to share my printer & can't, so what do i do now? all pcs r running windows xp but my dell is running xp pro mce, this is the main computer & the labtop has mce too.
The router is a netgear 814v2 which is set as the access point & dhcp enabled do i need to change this & if so how? thank you for youe help keith
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May 7th, 2006 14:00
klottes,
Since all the PCs can access the internet when the TCP/IP settings are configured to obtain an IP address automatically, TCP/IP is working properly. The most probable reason for File and Printer Sharing to fail is a blocking firewall. Your router's DHCP server is providing private IP addresses in the range 192.168.0.x, starting with 192.168.0.2. If, in your previous, non-satellite configuration, you used different static IP addresses, the software firewalls in the PCs need to be configured for the new IP address range. Most new PCs are now coming with software firewalls such as McAfee Security Suite, Norton Internet Security, etc. All of them can be configured to allow local traffic and you should use the IP address range being assigned by the router. Configure the software firewall for the entire range, not just the individual addresses. In your case that would be 192.168.0.0 - 192.168.0.255.
Mike Floutier
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May 7th, 2006 15:00
I read this post as I have a very similar new wireless setup and cant get the laptop to print via the network printer attached to the desktop.
I read my Norton Security handbook and ready the recent reply and it shows how to configure it's Firewall to allow printer and file sharing.
hth
Mike