Communicating between to Laptops via WiFi on 5102g

[XRayA4T]

I have a Telkom 5102g which I connect to with 2 Dell Laptops. They can both connect to the internet via WiFi and can connect to PCs on the LAN via WiFi but I cannot connect from one laptop to the other. Is this possible? Is it a set-up issue?
Thanks
Ray

 

[antowan]

Well. What OS are you running on each?

Make sure something is shared on both laptops and then make sure no firewall software is possibly blocking file sharing across the network.

Create a mirror account on both. Something like username: SHARING and password: WHATEVER

If you are not using simple file sharing on one of the machines the above would enable you to set permissions for the user called SHARING.

You will need to give more info on your setup. If they receive their addies via DHCP they should see eachother if the access point is negotiating/controling it.

Try pinging them. If you can't ping them, it doesn't mean they cannot see eachother, the firewall might kill ping requests....

 

[XRayA4T]

Hi,
I am running XP on both machines. I can ping the router but not the other laptop.

 

[Surv0]

and your sure for some reason those laptops arent using the same Ip address?

 

[XRayA4T]

No, the one laptop is on 10.0.0.100 and the other is on 10.0.0.102

 

[antowan]

What happens if you do this? (on the laptop with the 102 address!)

1. Click START
2. Click RUN
3. Enter "\\10.0.0.100"
4. Hit OK.


If you do not see the shares on the other laptop from 102 come back and report...

 

[XRayA4T]

No Luck

Yup, tried the \\10.0.0.100 before and again and it still does not work.
Tried making my laptop the DMZ machine on the router, no luck.

 

[damian24]

check if the firewalls are on on the laptops, if so turn them off and try pinging...

if this works it's the firewalling causing your probs and you'll need to configure your firewalls to let Microsoft local network stuff through...

D

 

[XRayA4T]

Still no luck

I turned off the firewall, still no luck. I connected my laptop to the ethernet port and could copy from my wife's laptop connected via WiFi

 

[Surv0]

Have you tried disabling your wireless encryption? it might work it might not...

 

[XRayA4T]

Working!???

Since pluging my laptop into the ethernet port and my IP changing to 10.0.0.101 on ethernet and WiFi al of a sudden I can connect to my wife's laptop!

 

[Surv0]

Ip conflict... there ya go...

 

[XRayA4T]

IP conflict event if there are only 2 machines on the network and my wife's IP hasn't changed?

 

[Vlad_M]

forget the laptops, go for a drive in the Audi...That should put a smile on ur face

 

[XRayA4T]

The wife and I both love our 2 A4 1.8T