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More info?)
Tony, thanks again for reply. Only introduced cable to
get around problem of the two machines upstairs not
seeing each other. Now with the extra confidence
provided from your reply that it all SHOULD work, I will
kick the kids off again and have another go soon armed
with a printout of your reply.
Thanks
Dave
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>"Dave" <madangler@beeb.net> wrote in message
>news:11af01c4f1be$b06dc280$a401280a@phx.gbl...
>> Tony please see original.
>>
>> Have tried using Windows to setup connection using USB
>> flash device (which didn't work - entered details
>> manually) and tried using the X-MICRO WLAN software
>> provided with the cards. It's almost there, everyone
has
>> internet access through mine, they can both see my
shared
>> files, I can see both theirs, BUT, they cannot see each
>> others. Have tried the reset TCP/IP using netsh ip
reset
>> and started again but same problem. Still have
wireless
>> problem of connections dropping frequently but that's a
>> seperate problem probably due to WZC.
>>
>> Any advice most welcome, your time appreciated.
>>
>> Dave.
>
>Dave,
>
>Sorry, I can't find original.
>
>I've just duplicated your set-up. I have three PC's all
wireless networked
>using Adhoc and ICS. All can see each other, connect to
the internet and
>share files. I then joined the two together that are
not connected to the
>internet using a cable connection. Strange one found an
IP address using
>the DHCP but the other wouldn't so I allocated it a
static IP. I then tried
>to bridge connections on the two that had the cable
connection but wasn't
>allowed - warning was cannot bridge to a connection that
is using ICS. Even
>without the bridge they are working fine - both can see
each other as well
>as the internet as well as the PC connected to the
internet.
>
>I don't understand why you need the cable connection if
all your PC's are
>connected using wireless? As I previously advised,
disconnect the cable
>connection, get the Adhoc working first with all PC's
seeing each other.
>
>Once that is working, connect the cable and manually
allocate IP's and
>subnets but don't bridge. Suggest that you use a
different subnet such as
>255.255.254.0 for the nics connected to the cable to
keep it separate. Only
>thought I have is that will allow the two upstairs ones
to still share files
>etc if the downstairs one is turned off.
>
>All are using USB wireless adaptors, two upstairs are
using Belkin and
>downstairs is using a Linksys. All PC's running XP
pro. All using WEP and
>zonealarm although the PC with internet connection has
Internet Zone
>security reduced to Medium else others won't connect to
the internet when
>using ICS.
>
>HTH
>
>Tony
>
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