network mess

[largosama]

I successfullly set up my network between 3 comps: Windows XP in basement wired into Linksys router w/4 port switch (802.11b) and two others on wireless. One's 2000 and another xp home edition (basement is professional) I temporarily resolved the problem of the computers not able to find each other even in search or using the run command for the ip address. At www.homenethelp.com one person said to disable NetBIOS over TCP/IP and add protocol nwlink netbios (someting like that). To my amazement, my first attempt at networking suceeded!

Unfortuanately, the process automatically went back to the point of having only internet access on the wired computer in the basement. also, I could not see other computers on the network or use their printers; only the one in the basement could. Since I am VERY inexperienced in the field of networking (first time), is there anything that may cause this? Any more information you need i;ll try to find... Thanks to everyone.

[glc]

I sometimes have to use static IP addressing on wireless clients. If you haven't changed the defaults in the Linksys, try using 192.168.1.200 and up for the clients, subnet mask is 255.255.255.0, default gateway and DNS is 192.168.1.1 (default router IP). This can be assigned in the TCP/IP properties of the wireless connection on the clients.

I think the reason this happens is the clent times out trying to get the IP address via DHCP before the wireless signal is all synced up on reboot and gets an APIPA address (169.254.x.x) instead. This is very common on Win9x clients but I suppose it's possible to happen on 2k/XP also.

[largosama]

I found out the xp laptop works fine... Only the 2K MY computer does it. The wireless monitoring utility scans, then authenticates, and never connects. I'll try what you say... If it doens't work, may be installing xp will work...

[largosama]

It doesn't work for the wireless client. Maybe its a brand compatability issue between zonet and linksys... ARe there any known issues?

[largosama]

Is anyone there???

[glc]

Now that you have started another thread, I'm closing this one.