Can not file/print share with XP/linksys wireless network (internet/email works)

Hey. I've got a few machines (5) connected via a linksys wrt54g router and their respective access points (3 desktops - two laptops, one's centrino, one's just got an adapter card). I can get all the computers to browse and get their email but I cannot get the file sharing to work. I've tried to ping the computers from one another and I don't get a response (100% signal loss).

I know it's something simple, but I can't seem to find what's holding the computers back. One machine is a win2000, the rest are XP. I can't even really get two of the XP machines to interact. I guess the ping not working probably means the most...

Pinging 192.168.1.103 with 32 bytes of data:
laptop on network trying to ping another computer -

Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 192.168.1.103:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),

My laptop pings itself here -

Pinging 192.168.1.100 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 192.168.1.100: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.1.100: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.1.100: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.1.100: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128

Ping statistics for 192.168.1.100:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms

Any ideas?

_david (I feel like this guy -> )

 

Yup. Until you can get them to ping each other, none of your TCP/IP local area networking is gonna work.

Assuming that you already have 'client for microsoft networks' and 'file and printer sharing' loaded, and each machine having the same workgroup name and different PC names, try loading NetBEUI on a pair of the XP machines and check for the ability of those two to see each other on the network.

 

No help

I installed NetBEUI and didn't really see any response.

Is there a way to get windows XP to reset to defaults within it's networking so I can start over some how with these machines?

I ran the network setup wizard this morning on the machines and nothing became of that, I now have a laptop that won't coordinate with the DHCP setup on my linksys router (model WRT54G) that didn't have this problem to start, the ip keeps being set to something else because the network setup wizard installed a bridge that wasn't really neccessary.

I called linksys and they refered me to answer number 280 in the support forums which is just directions of how to run the setup wizard (does that really mean nothing? I really don't know...).

Is there any kind of information that I might want to post? log from router, screenshots of net setups, etc.?

I don't have a screenshot program...

Anyway, something deep within the setups is not allowing the tcp/ip networking. That's why I'd like to go ahead and reset the net setups somehow. I can't even get any of the computers to see their workgroup. If you try to 'view workgroup computers' it just comes back and says "Mshome is not accessible. The list of servers for this workgroup is not currently available ". Which is strange...

Then I've got all the people that think like Wolverine did it, you know ( )? This is turning into a pain in the butt.

Heres the IP config of our "server "

Windows IP Configuration


Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 3:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.103
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : fe80::202:b3ff:fe8e:b4cd%4 *
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1



Tunnel adapter Automatic Tunneling Pseudo-Interface:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : fe80::5efe:192.168.1.103%2 *
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

(*What the hell are those fe80 things?)

I can ping one of the computers correctly, it'll open the workgroup, but the other computers aren't listed. Do you think maybe if I disable that tunnel interface that's probably left over from having to uninstall a VPN. This all started when this guy whose left the company uninstalled a VPN Is that helpful?

(*if you see this I had to restart in mid-edit) I did a "ipv6 uninstall" and that got rid of that tunnell adapter thing, now I can ping everybody but still have limited sharing capabilities. At least I'm halfway here... I've got my laptop and another computer talking... let's see what else I can get...

_david

 

Ok I got all the computers but one, the machine with all our accounting and so forth on it, to work. I can ping the other machines from this one computer, but if I try to view the other computers in our workgroup, it just gives me the same error message "Mshome is not accessible. The list of servers for this workgroup is not currently available ". Which is weird because that's a workgroup not a device really. I'm going to go back on all the settings that cause those other computers to work and try to figure out how our server is being locked out.

Anyway, can you think of anything that I could do to jog this machine back to sharing correctly?

 

Glad you made some progress.

Is the 2K machine the one you are still having problems with?

Are the XP machines the home or pro version?

I'm pretty sure I know what the problem is now but the 'fix' options are different depending on your exact OS mix.

 

Yo

I got us back up, everyone's sharing, internet, files, and printers. However, it's a little slow, and I can't get into like microsoft.com and some other sites too. I don't know what's up with that really.

The problem was simple I guess, I had to make a net setup disk and then install NetBIOS and they came right up, that is after I finally got the VPN thing to uninstall. "ipv6 uninstall" / net setup disk / install netBIOS.

I can't get the gotomypc connectivity either. Any thoughts?

Do you think that's a HTTP / HTTPS thing?

 

However, it's a little slow, and I can't get into like microsoft.com and some other sites too. I don't know what's up with that really.

DNS issue of some sort but not enough information yet to figure out exactly where.

Things to try - start with any one of the PCs
- start => run => ipconfig /flushdns then
- rename \system32\drivers\etc\hosts to hosts.old and try again. If that works, post back. If it does not, try going to a problem site by IP address rather than by site name.

I can't get the gotomypc connectivity either

Not sure what you mean by 'gotomypc connectivity'.

 

DNS issues

I didn't really think of that, the DNS config. That one thing, rename hosts to hosts.old didn't work, but thanks for a little direction.

As far as more information what can I post that you'd find helpful?

_david

 

Fixed it

I fixed it by opening the linksys router's page in IE and setting the MTU level to 1200. Don't really know what that does at all, but I called our ISP and the guy I spoke with said get this tcp doctor tool and set the MTU to 1200, which wouldn't work, but it was the correct setting. So, I thought about it and realized that would have to be set in the router. Now we can get onto ebay and the other sites (microsoft etc).

go to my PC - ? you don't know what that is?

www.gotomypc.com - PC remote control for working on your desktop in your office while you are somewhere else. I can't get it to see the computers for some reason. I doubt anyone but gotomypc would be able to help me with that!

_david

 

Done

I'm done finally. GoToMyPc came back on after an uninstall. Thanks!

_david

 

Thanks for posting back with the fix.

And nope, I'd never heard of that brand of remote control software before.