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More info?)
I think David was talking about firewall software ON your computer. Have you
looked at the settings of your XP firewall? Because your behind your Belkin NAT
pseudo firewall... you can turn OFF the XP firewall while you troubleshoot your
problem. So turn it off and see if you can network your computers. If so... the
problem is your XP firewall settings. Turn on file and printer sharing in the
WinXP firewall.
Tony S wrote:
> David
>
> My Belkin router has a built in firewall and I don't know how to configure
> it. Also how do you enable file and print sharing and pings?
>
> I could do with a "walk through" At the risk of being a cheeky pest I wonder
> if you could provide some additional information please.
>
> I am a fairly experienced compter user but networking is a bit new to me and
> particularly wireless networking
> Regards
> Tony S
>
> "David {MVP}" wrote:
>
>> You'll need to configure your firewalls. Have you? Have you enabled
>> Microsoft file and print sharing? Have you enabled Pings? With Service Pack
>> 2 and the increase awareness of security I believe these ports are block by
>> default.
>>
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>> "Tony S" <TonyS@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:F550C810-B1E3-4AA3-AB5F-32E1D64FBEBF@microsoft.com...
>>> I have set up a wireless network using a Belkin router on my main PC and
>>> the
>>> built in Wi-Fi on my laptop.
>>>
>>> The internet connection sharing works fine on the laptop I can surf the
>>> web
>>> etc but I cannot get either machine to "see" the other.
>>>
>>> I pinged the master PC from the laptop and got the message "4 packets
>>> sent -
>>> 0 received 100% loss"
>>>
>>> Can anyone PLEASE help me to sort out this problem. I'm running Win XP Pro
>>> on the main PC and Win XP Home on the laptop
>>>
>>> Thanks in anticipation