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aspinfo

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The addition of a new wireless router has caused me headaches. My old wireless router created clients on the same network as my wired network. My new Asus router creates a separate network for its wireless clients. I work from home and have the following setup.

Comcast router.
48 port gigabit switch.
Synology NAS drive running DHCP for wired clients on 192.168.14.X network.
Esxi server running several VM's on 14 network.
HP wired printer on 14 network.

Asus wireless router created 15 network for all wireless clients.
HP wireless printer on 15 network.

My Win7 x64 laptop can no longer browse any 14 network devices, including my shares on Synology drive.

Can't connect to those shares by typing \\diskstation\sharename either.

created LMHOSTS file with several static entries.
enabled netbios over tcp/ip
ensured wireless network was "work" type
ran nbtstat -c to ensure lmhosts loaded

I do not have a domain but did enable WINS on a Windows Server on 14 network and manually added same static entries as LMHOSTS locally.

 
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I have no real idea at all, just a blatant guess would be that you can't browse a PC with an OS higher than your current OS, perhaps?
Maybe you need to remove all previous protocols from the previos router and set up new ones for each of the PC's in your network?

If the old router worked so well, why did you get a new one?
 
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aspinfo

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the older SMC router died. The Asus has the new "ac" speed, although I'm just using "N" for now. Both 192.168.14.X and 192.168.15.X are 255.255.255.0 subnets..
 
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TenPc

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I would not have expected a laptop to have been able to run such a network, perhaps the issue was not with the "dead" SMC router but the laptop itself?

I'm not really familiar with networking PC's, I'll just add my perspectives and you can either ignore or challenge or correct my misgivings until someone else can add better replies.

Have you created file sharing with all other computers as well as the master computer?
How many other PC's are there? 14? plus printer? Not really a home network or you got lots of family members..lol
 
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Just to clarify, my network consists mostly of virtual 2008 servers that i run from RDP and shares on a NAS drive. I don't have peer to peer shares on other Windows 7 machines. My 14 network is all of those traditional servers and NAS drives all on a switch. My 15 network is the wireless network that doesn't involve peer to peer sharing. I just want to be on the 15 network and browse shared folders on the 14 network. I have some improvement as adding the wins service to one of the servers on the 14 network and then to dhcp clients on 15 network gave me some visibility to those devices.
 
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