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Old January 2nd, 2009, 02:10 PM   Digg it!   #1 (permalink)
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Wireless can't see wired on LAN

The setup I have is an 8 port gigabit unmanaged switch with 6 wired connections on it, and one cable uplinking the switch to a netopia modem which is a router and DSL modem in one.

The netopia will accept both wired and wireless connections, the unmanaged switch only accepts wired connections.

So here's the problem; wireless devices can only see wired systems in their workgroup if they are plugged into the netopia, and not the gigabit switch (and vice versa).

A wired connection will see all other wired connections, regardless of whether they're on the switch or the netopia. No problem. A wired connection on the netopia can see a wireless connection on the netopia. No problem. But again, a wired connection on the switch cannot see a wireless connection on the netopia. Any ideas?
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Old January 2nd, 2009, 04:35 PM     #2 (permalink)
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Are you going just on what you can see in network neighborhood? Network neighborhood is a broken piece of software that seems to only want to work when it wants too. I tell users not to use it, if they want to do any file sharing to just map out a network drive to a share.

Can you ping those machines that you cant see?
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Well, it's not just network neighborhood but any shared folders that are typically in network places I can't see. Whether that utilizes neighborhood or not I don't know.

I cannot ping the systems in question; "Request timed out."
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disable any firewalls running on those machines you cant see/ping
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Old January 2nd, 2009, 04:54 PM     #5 (permalink)
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omg I'm an idiot! It just so happened that all of the wireless connections had firewall on, and the wired ones didn't LOL

It works. Thanks a lot GroundZero!
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