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Author Topic: No file sharing or LAN ping  (Read 3349 times)

markoxford

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No file sharing or LAN ping
« on: March 03, 2010, 02:12:24 PM »
I know a little about setting up routers, but I am stumped!!

I have a windows 2000 laptop, and a windows 7 laptop set up on wireless with WPA and a XP desktop. All can access the internet no problem - but I can not ping them or see files across the LAN. My last router worked perfectly. I am using MAC address access control to help with security. I have flashed to 1.32NA and manual adjust all settings.

What am I missing?? I reckon if I can solve the ping issue then the file sharing will be solved as well. I have read the manual a bunch of times and do not see anything that could be stopping me from pinging across my LAN.

If anyone needs more info just let me know.
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DirtyDawg

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Re: No file sharing or LAN ping
« Reply #1 on: March 04, 2010, 02:59:06 AM »
The first thing I would do is make sure that all of the IP addresses that your NIC's have are within the range of the DHCP IP Address Range that is set up within the routers set up page.  If they are all already within that range, check other things such as make sure all of the systems on your LAN are configured for the same Network Name (SSID), basic networking troubleshooting stuff.  Plus having multiple versions of windows installed on systems within your LAN is going to complicate things a little as well.
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DIR-655-Hardware A4-Firmware 1.21

markoxford

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Re: No file sharing or LAN ping
« Reply #2 on: March 04, 2010, 06:26:27 AM »
Thanks for the reply - after many weeks of blaming the router I have found the issue, (which I will detail here for others):-

It is not a router setup problem - even through my last router worked perfectly!!

The issue is with windows - when you change anything to do with the wireless, (security, ssid, type etc), windows XP, Vista and 7 automatically changes everything to "Public" network security level. This means that machines that previously shared files will no longer do so. Please feel free to thank microsoft for this excellent example of "nannyware". Once I finally, (doh!), realised it was not the DIR-655 it only took a few minutes to re-establish the home group and shared folders.

Hope this helps others....

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