- Mar 22, 2014
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Hello,
I'm a little new to networking, I only started reading up on it a week ago, so I'm not 100% sure if what I want to do is achievable. I think it is but I can't get it to work and I want to make sure I haven't missed something obvious.
In my office we have our network supplied to us by the landlords and they charge us per IP address/connection whether they're in use or not. Occasionally we have freelancers come in who need internet access and to have addition IP address/connections for them is not cost effective as they'd often go unused. To solve this we bought a wireless router, configured it to run as a DHCP server and plugged it into a single connection from our main LAN.
This works great and people using our wifi can access the internet.
What the wifi users also occasionally need is access to the files on our 'server' and our networked printer. Our server is a desktop machine with shared folders connected to the main LAN. The printer is connected through a LAN switch to the main LAN.
The big question... Is it possible to map the server and printer to wifi connected clients?
The server's IP on the LAN is 172.28.124.23
The wifi router's IP on the LAN is 172.28.124.27
These are both static.
The router is running the usual 192.168.1.X subnet with mask 255.255.255.0.
My understanding was that if when mapping a folder if I point to the server's IP I should be able to find the shared folders on the server, but I can't seem to get a connection outside of the router's subnet.
Is there some configuring to be done elsewhere (on the server maybe) that I haven't done?
Thanks in advance,
Dan
I'm a little new to networking, I only started reading up on it a week ago, so I'm not 100% sure if what I want to do is achievable. I think it is but I can't get it to work and I want to make sure I haven't missed something obvious.
In my office we have our network supplied to us by the landlords and they charge us per IP address/connection whether they're in use or not. Occasionally we have freelancers come in who need internet access and to have addition IP address/connections for them is not cost effective as they'd often go unused. To solve this we bought a wireless router, configured it to run as a DHCP server and plugged it into a single connection from our main LAN.
This works great and people using our wifi can access the internet.
What the wifi users also occasionally need is access to the files on our 'server' and our networked printer. Our server is a desktop machine with shared folders connected to the main LAN. The printer is connected through a LAN switch to the main LAN.
The big question... Is it possible to map the server and printer to wifi connected clients?
The server's IP on the LAN is 172.28.124.23
The wifi router's IP on the LAN is 172.28.124.27
These are both static.
The router is running the usual 192.168.1.X subnet with mask 255.255.255.0.
My understanding was that if when mapping a folder if I point to the server's IP I should be able to find the shared folders on the server, but I can't seem to get a connection outside of the router's subnet.
Is there some configuring to be done elsewhere (on the server maybe) that I haven't done?
Thanks in advance,
Dan
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