Wired vs. Wireless Woes

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  1. Posts : 22
    Windows Vista
       #1

    Wired vs. Wireless Woes


    Here's the setup:
    1 home desktop wired (Win7 Premium)
    1 work desktop wired (Win7 Premium)
    1 work laptop wireless(Vista Business)
    1 laptop wireless (kids) running Vista Home
    1 laptop wireless (kids) running XP

    just added
    1 netbook (wife) with Win 7 starter

    Fought homegroup, so turned that off on all Win7 machines.

    Every computer on the network can see the netbook (and all other computers). But you can't connect to it.
    On the netbook, it can not see any wired computer, but can see the wireless computer (other than the Vista business computer). So I hooked an ethernet cable and the netbook can see the entire network.
    All computers belong to WORKGROUP. The netbook can connect to the router and internet just fine. End result is I need to see the network so my wife can print from the internet to the network printer (on my main desktop). I'm pretty good when it comes to working this stuff out (had computers since 1984), but I spent the better part of this afternoon to no avail.

    So any ideas or suggestions are welcomed.
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  2. Posts : 28,845
    Win 8 Release candidate 8400
       #2

    dnelms said:
    Here's the setup:
    1 home desktop wired (Win7 Premium)
    1 work desktop wired (Win7 Premium)
    1 work laptop wireless(Vista Business)
    1 laptop wireless (kids) running Vista Home
    1 laptop wireless (kids) running XP

    just added
    1 netbook (wife) with Win 7 starter

    Fought homegroup, so turned that off on all Win7 machines.

    Every computer on the network can see the netbook (and all other computers). But you can't connect to it.
    On the netbook, it can not see any wired computer, but can see the wireless computer (other than the Vista business computer). So I hooked an ethernet cable and the netbook can see the entire network.
    All computers belong to WORKGROUP. The netbook can connect to the router and internet just fine. End result is I need to see the network so my wife can print from the internet to the network printer (on my main desktop). I'm pretty good when it comes to working this stuff out (had computers since 1984), but I spent the better part of this afternoon to no avail.

    So any ideas or suggestions are welcomed.
    hi and welcome to sevenforums

    Question. what firewall and av is on the netbook?

    Nice post BTW

    Ken
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  3. Posts : 22
    Windows Vista
    Thread Starter
       #3

    zigzag3143 said:
    dnelms said:
    Here's the setup:
    1 home desktop wired (Win7 Premium)
    1 work desktop wired (Win7 Premium)
    1 work laptop wireless(Vista Business)
    1 laptop wireless (kids) running Vista Home
    1 laptop wireless (kids) running XP

    just added
    1 netbook (wife) with Win 7 starter

    Fought homegroup, so turned that off on all Win7 machines.

    Every computer on the network can see the netbook (and all other computers). But you can't connect to it.
    On the netbook, it can not see any wired computer, but can see the wireless computer (other than the Vista business computer). So I hooked an ethernet cable and the netbook can see the entire network.
    All computers belong to WORKGROUP. The netbook can connect to the router and internet just fine. End result is I need to see the network so my wife can print from the internet to the network printer (on my main desktop). I'm pretty good when it comes to working this stuff out (had computers since 1984), but I spent the better part of this afternoon to no avail.

    So any ideas or suggestions are welcomed.
    hi and welcome to sevenforums

    Question. what firewall and av is on the netbook?

    Nice post BTW

    Ken
    running Windows Firewall and Microsoft Security Essentials on every Win 7 computer.
      My Computer


  4. aem
    Posts : 2,698
    Windows 7 Ultimate 64Bit
       #4

    Which machine is the printer physically connected to?

    When you hooked the wife's machine up to ethernet is she able to print?
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  5. Posts : 22
    Windows Vista
    Thread Starter
       #5

    aem said:
    Which machine is the printer physically connected to?

    When you hooked the wife's machine up to ethernet is she able to print?
    My main desktop (running Win 7 Premium) is where the printer is hooked up to. The printer is shared.

    I went back and plugged the ethernet back in and it did discover the printer and would print.

    Just something that will not allow the netbook to see the rest of the network. Network discovery is on.
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  6. aem
    Posts : 2,698
    Windows 7 Ultimate 64Bit
       #6

    Printing to that printer doesn't reqiuire you to be put in the Homegroup. You can do it the conventional way...leave the Homegroup discovery option out for now and see if you can print to the printer wirelessly. Does the printer have wireless connections to it?
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  7. Posts : 22
    Windows Vista
    Thread Starter
       #7

    aem said:
    Printing to that printer doesn't reqiuire you to be put in the Homegroup. You can do it the conventional way...leave the Homegroup discovery option out for now and see if you can print to the printer wirelessly. Does the printer have wireless connections to it?
    Printing is not wireless. As stated previously, nothing is on a homegroup as I could never get it to work. Works fine between the wired machine, but not the wireless netbook.
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  8. aem
    Posts : 2,698
    Windows 7 Ultimate 64Bit
       #8

    "Printing is not wireless."

    I asked if the printer has wireless capabilties?
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  9. Posts : 22
    Windows Vista
    Thread Starter
       #9

    aem said:
    "Printing is not wireless."

    I asked if the printer has wireless capabilties?
    No, it has no wireless capabilities (other than Bluetooth and that it not on the netbook to test)
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  10. Posts : 22
    Windows Vista
    Thread Starter
       #10

    Thought I'd try something this morning. I change the wireless adapter settings to use a static IP address. I chose a high number (192.168.11.25) so I was sure I would not interfere with any devices the DHCP server was handing out.

    So I try to ping that address from other places, it times out every single time.

    This is got me stumped. On the other hand if all I'm after in the end (other than it irritates me when I can't figure something out) is for my wife to be able to print from her netbook, then adding a bluetooth adapter on the USB port would talk to my printer (it has a Bluetooth adapter added)... am I looking at that part right?
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