troyhicks
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windows network issue
Ok, here is what silliness I have to deal with atm:
At a store our company supports is a small LAN with a server and 3 workstations that are part of a point of sale system. At another location is an office for the store. At the office is the internet gateway (DSL). But the link from the office to the store is some sort of leased line 128k.
Now, for some reason the internet respo se is crappy from the store, and the managers there need to surf to buy crap. They requested I bring in a laptop, with wireless access. Reason is that the store is next to Star Bucks (where a t-mobile access point is). So, that is setup, and the laptop gets great connection speed. Now they want to print from the laptop to a printer on the local store network.
So on this laptop I have two network connections, one wireless, and one ethernet. I have not gotten both to work at the same time. When I disable the ethernet, the wireless works fine, and vice versa. It is windowsXP, and server 2000. And they are on a workgroup there, not a domain.
Even more, they thought it would be cool to use the laptops great internet connection (wireless through t-mobile) for access of theo ther LAN systems to the web.
I have not been able to get the laptop to connect with the wireless (wireless takes on some ip from provider), and the ethernet (dynamic ip) to allow the laptop to be on the wireless internet and to print to the local network printers?
Can the connections be bridged?
At a store our company supports is a small LAN with a server and 3 workstations that are part of a point of sale system. At another location is an office for the store. At the office is the internet gateway (DSL). But the link from the office to the store is some sort of leased line 128k.
Now, for some reason the internet respo se is crappy from the store, and the managers there need to surf to buy crap. They requested I bring in a laptop, with wireless access. Reason is that the store is next to Star Bucks (where a t-mobile access point is). So, that is setup, and the laptop gets great connection speed. Now they want to print from the laptop to a printer on the local store network.
So on this laptop I have two network connections, one wireless, and one ethernet. I have not gotten both to work at the same time. When I disable the ethernet, the wireless works fine, and vice versa. It is windowsXP, and server 2000. And they are on a workgroup there, not a domain.
Even more, they thought it would be cool to use the laptops great internet connection (wireless through t-mobile) for access of theo ther LAN systems to the web.
I have not been able to get the laptop to connect with the wireless (wireless takes on some ip from provider), and the ethernet (dynamic ip) to allow the laptop to be on the wireless internet and to print to the local network printers?
Can the connections be bridged?
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before you waste too much time setting things up be aware that your neighbour may have issues with you using their bandwidth and may eventually put in an address block of your laptop. :-(
You would be back where you started.
Bel
You would be back where you started.
Bel
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nah. The wireless connection is paid. it is a t-mobile account. The laptop is allowed to connect to the wireless network. And that part works fine. Now I just need the laptop to also see the LAN it is hard plugged into, and print crap to the printers.
with both turned on, go to a prompt and type these sommand (paste the results here please)
ipconfig /all
and then
route print
ipconfig /all
and then
route print
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Bah!
Looks like only when I make the lan side automatic (finds a dhcp) will it work. And the wireless side must be on dhcp, that is the only option. I cannot force the router for the wireless to NOT send a default gateway.
So it looks like I cannot make this work!
When I start up the laptop, the lan side will work, and the wireless side is stuck - until I get rid of the default gateway on the lan side and put in static ip. Then the lan side stops finding the lan, and the wireless part starts to work and can access the web.
I guess I have to put a printer on this laptop, locally. just that there is not really room where it is.
bummer.
If no one can respond and give me a good alternative to try, then go ahead and close this issue ...
Looks like only when I make the lan side automatic (finds a dhcp) will it work. And the wireless side must be on dhcp, that is the only option. I cannot force the router for the wireless to NOT send a default gateway.
So it looks like I cannot make this work!
When I start up the laptop, the lan side will work, and the wireless side is stuck - until I get rid of the default gateway on the lan side and put in static ip. Then the lan side stops finding the lan, and the wireless part starts to work and can access the web.
I guess I have to put a printer on this laptop, locally. just that there is not really room where it is.
bummer.
If no one can respond and give me a good alternative to try, then go ahead and close this issue ...
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How about printing to your printer externally through your dsl connection, not the best solution but ...
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ok, I am still working on this - please do not close the issue. I will post again in a few ...
asked another expert to look in on this one
no firewalls involved here are there?
Well, I can see how this would be a problem to setup, and I will need to sit back and think on this one. (Of course my first response would have been to suggest a direct printer connection... :)
Getting a bite and will be back..
FE
Getting a bite and will be back..
FE
Thanks for popping in FE
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hmm.. oops.. I meant the lower metric.. sorry.. :)
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ok, here is where I am now. I disable the wireless connection in device manager. And focus on the lan side. I simply want to configure the laptop to have a static ip and see the lan and be able to see the workgroup components.
When I use automatic ip settings (dhcp), this is all good to go. Though then I end up not able to have the wireless side work, because of two gateways. So, back to the static ip part ...
Now I have setup lots of machines with static ip's, on workgroups. I am having trouble with this one?
the lan here is on the private 192.168.100.0 255.255.255.0 network. A sonicwall firewall router is 192.168.100.1 and has dhcp. A windows 2000 server (not running a domain) is 192.168.100.13 (it is running wins). And then there is 3-4 other client computers running as cash registers
The sonic wall dhcp server starts adding ip's at 192.168.100.100 and I know that the ip I assign to the laptop is ok to use. I assigned 192.168.100.35 to the laptop. and have the gateway as 192.168.100.1 (which will eventually be taken away as a gateway, as the laptop will have to use the dhcp wireless side gateway for the internet)
ok, the laptop is all static'ed out. But it will not browse and show workgroup computers? It will show them if I use dhcp, but as static I cannot see the network machines? I can ping and see it, from any machine.
The error I get it is: 'workgroup name' is not accessible. You might not have permission to use thhis network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions."
The laptop is in fact on the correct workgroup. As evident when i switch to dhcp, and then see the workgroup - and can print to it. If I can get the lan side to work with static, then I should be home free.
What is stopping the laptop from having permission to access the workgroup? The laptop was on a domain, and was taken off and put on the workgroup. The user on the laptop is an admin login (for the local machine). I thought workgroup machines were each in charge of themselves?
here is the ipconfig:
ethernet adapter local area connection:
connection specific dns suffix:
ip address : 192.168.100.35
subnet mask : 255.255.255.0
default gateway : 192.168.100.1
route print looks normal. shows the gateway, etc. I am typing this on another machine atm, as I have to either have the laptop try to be on the lan or on the wireless (internet). So I cannot cut and paste. If i put the laptop on the internet - then the lan side did not work - so I will paste that in a few minutes.
this is all right now with the wireless part disabled.
again, not looking at metrics right now - first I need to get this machine to work on this workgroup with static ip!!! Why won't it work?
When I use automatic ip settings (dhcp), this is all good to go. Though then I end up not able to have the wireless side work, because of two gateways. So, back to the static ip part ...
Now I have setup lots of machines with static ip's, on workgroups. I am having trouble with this one?
the lan here is on the private 192.168.100.0 255.255.255.0 network. A sonicwall firewall router is 192.168.100.1 and has dhcp. A windows 2000 server (not running a domain) is 192.168.100.13 (it is running wins). And then there is 3-4 other client computers running as cash registers
The sonic wall dhcp server starts adding ip's at 192.168.100.100 and I know that the ip I assign to the laptop is ok to use. I assigned 192.168.100.35 to the laptop. and have the gateway as 192.168.100.1 (which will eventually be taken away as a gateway, as the laptop will have to use the dhcp wireless side gateway for the internet)
ok, the laptop is all static'ed out. But it will not browse and show workgroup computers? It will show them if I use dhcp, but as static I cannot see the network machines? I can ping and see it, from any machine.
The error I get it is: 'workgroup name' is not accessible. You might not have permission to use thhis network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions."
The laptop is in fact on the correct workgroup. As evident when i switch to dhcp, and then see the workgroup - and can print to it. If I can get the lan side to work with static, then I should be home free.
What is stopping the laptop from having permission to access the workgroup? The laptop was on a domain, and was taken off and put on the workgroup. The user on the laptop is an admin login (for the local machine). I thought workgroup machines were each in charge of themselves?
here is the ipconfig:
ethernet adapter local area connection:
connection specific dns suffix:
ip address : 192.168.100.35
subnet mask : 255.255.255.0
default gateway : 192.168.100.1
route print looks normal. shows the gateway, etc. I am typing this on another machine atm, as I have to either have the laptop try to be on the lan or on the wireless (internet). So I cannot cut and paste. If i put the laptop on the internet - then the lan side did not work - so I will paste that in a few minutes.
this is all right now with the wireless part disabled.
again, not looking at metrics right now - first I need to get this machine to work on this workgroup with static ip!!! Why won't it work?
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hmmm...
Seems to all work now. I told the dhcp server to allow the ethernet device (lan adapter on laptop) to be a static ip. Then setup static ip on the ethernet adapter - with no gateway. Then enabled the wireless adapter, and it has dhcp and gets assigned a gateway. Now the laptop has only one gateway. It can browse the lan as well, and print.
Seems that the whole problem was mostly the sonicwall dhcp server - if it did not get its hands on the laptop - the laptop would not get access to the LAN. Even if I put in static ip information? Now that the sonicwall knows that machine is static, all is well.
I will assign some points once I get back to the office. Thanks all, this issue can be CLOSED!!!
hooray
Seems to all work now. I told the dhcp server to allow the ethernet device (lan adapter on laptop) to be a static ip. Then setup static ip on the ethernet adapter - with no gateway. Then enabled the wireless adapter, and it has dhcp and gets assigned a gateway. Now the laptop has only one gateway. It can browse the lan as well, and print.
Seems that the whole problem was mostly the sonicwall dhcp server - if it did not get its hands on the laptop - the laptop would not get access to the LAN. Even if I put in static ip information? Now that the sonicwall knows that machine is static, all is well.
I will assign some points once I get back to the office. Thanks all, this issue can be CLOSED!!!
hooray
Very good, and thanks for the explanation.!!
FE
FE
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last comment- I did not end up using any route command. It was not needed. As I left the laptop has wireless internet andcan print to the lan printers - and the laptop is NOT a gateway for the lan - the lan had its own internet gateway (just a little slower than the wireless connection).
I may turn on internet sharing at some point, but it is not needed now. Thanks to everyone who contributed - I learned a lot.
I may turn on internet sharing at some point, but it is not needed now. Thanks to everyone who contributed - I learned a lot.
Glad we could help!, and ditoo the thanks on the explaination!
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I have the network adapter for the internet (wireless) configured. The other adapter has a static ip, and no gateway. But still, only when I get rid of the wireless part can I connect to anything on the LAN.
The lan side adapter is set up as static 192.168.100.103 255.255.255.0 and no gateway.
The wireless is dhcp. It currently has an ip of 10.253.182.117 mask is 255.255.255.224 and the gateway is 10.253.182.97
when I run the 'route print' command, it shows only the 10.253.182.97 as being a default gateway.
now - I just need the machine to see the LAN (192.168.100.0 255.255.255.0) so it can get connected to a printer there.
when I turn off the wireless network adapter (internet) part, I can see the LAN just fine with the LAN adapter. And I can print just fine. But when the wireless adapter is turned back on, then the LAN part stops to work.
I need both parts to work!!
I tried the route command,
route add 192.168.100.0 mask 255.255.255.0 192.168.100.1 ---- because 192.168.100.1 is the gateway when dhcp does the job
this did not get me the LAN
I also tried the route add 10.253.182.0 mask 255.255.255.0 192.168.100.1 ----- in case.
this did not work either.
What the heck am I doing wrong?