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More info?)
You may also want to try ping thewireless
This access by Netbios name ought to work provided you have enabled Netbios
over TCP (usually enabled by getting such from the DHCP in the MN700 or
other router) in the network properties of the PC you are connecting from
(no need to install the Netbeui protocol)
"Larry" <field@cox-internet.com> wrote in message
news:0bcb01c4a173$b6543760$a301280a@phx.gbl...
>
> How do you access the MN-700 using the Netbios name? For
> instance, when I set up AP mode, I gave it a name
> of 'TheWireless' but can't figure out how to open the
> management pages using that.
>
> Thanks,
> Larry
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >I've found the MN-700 to be a bit of a strange beast in
> AP mode ;-). It
> >works just fine, but heaven forbid trying to figure out
> how it operates as a
> >DHCP client.
> >
> >I though I'd be a smart guy, and give it a fixed IP. Or,
> at least, create a
> >reservation for it. I let it pick up an address via DHCP,
> get the mac addy,
> >and create a reservation on the DHCP server.
> >
> >But the MN-700 will have none of that ;-). It's got a
> second mac addy for
> >that case, and it will use that one to avoid the
> reservation I created.
> >
> >Curious beast. Oh well, eventually it defeated me, and I
> simply used the
> >netbios name to acces it as the manual instructed. Let it
> have whatever IP
> >it wants, I don't care that much.
> >
> >And it does work nicely.
> >
> >--
> >Les Connor [SBS MVP]
> >-------------------------------------
> >SBS Rocks !
> >
> >
> >
> ><anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >news:10d801c4a0d5$b3a4d9a0$7d02280a@phx.gbl...
> >>
> >> It's not showing up in the DHCP list of the other router
> >> (an SMC 7004abr). Only the computers attached are
> showing
> >> up in the list. I can see the wired computers on the
> smc
> >> router and the wireless computers attached through the
> mn-
> >> 700 but not the mn-700 itself.
> >>
> >> Larry
> >>
> >>
> >>>-----Original Message-----
> >>>The MN-700 unlike the MN-100 & MN-700 becomes a DHCP
> >> client when it is
> >>>put in access point mode. I'd suggest either using it's
> >> name or finding
> >>>it's IP address from the DHCP list in the other router.
> >>>
> >>>Larry wrote:
> >>>> I've setup my MN-700 in Access Point mode, given it an
> >> IP
> >>>> address of 192.168.2.252 and connected it to another
> >>>> router (an open port on the router to the modem port
> of
> >>>> the MN-700).
> >>>>
> >>>> However, I can't access the admin pages of the MN-700
> >> when
> >>>> I type the ip address above in my browser. It just
> >> times
> >>>> out and says it can't open the page.
> >>>>
> >>>> I can still access my other router via the browser by
> >>>> using 192.168.2.1 though.
> >>>>
> >>>> Any ideas on how I can get to the admin pages on my
> MN-
> >> 700
> >>>> would be appreciated.
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks,
> >>>> Larry
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>.
> >>>
> >
> >
> >.
> >