[Romeo26222]

Hi everybody
I have a wired router that have an ip 192.168.1.1 and it is connected to two computers that have ips of 192.168.1.2 and 192.168.1.3 and I connected aan linksys access point and it take an ip of 192.168.1.4 and it gives the connected devices such as my laptop an ip of 10.1.1.100
Now internet works fine but I want to share files between the wired and wirless pcs but I can't do so...
When I am on the wired pcs and browse for network places I can't find the wireless connected laptop..
Any help in this??

[ScottGem]

Either disable the DHCP on the Access Point so that the router is the one who hands out IPs, or change the range the Access point hands out.

[Romeo26222]

or change the range the Access point hands out

You mean I make th ip range for the wired router from 192.168.1.2 to 192.168.1.5 and make the wirless on starts from 192.168.1.6??

[ScottGem]

No I would make it 192.168.1.100. Give yourself room with either.

[Romeo26222]

So the solution is to make both router and wireless have an ips 192.168.1.xxx

[ScottGem]

Yes, essentially 192.168.1 is the subnet and you want all the PCs in the same subnet.

[Romeo26222]

Yes, essentially 192.168.1 is the subnet and you want all the PCs in the same subnet.

Thanks so much for your help I will try this tomorrow at work and let you know.. :D

[retsoksirhc]

Are you sure this is an wireless access point and not a wireless router?

If it's a wireless router, you can't have the wire going from one of the ports on the wired router into the WAN or Internet port on the wireless router. The laptops will be able to get to the other computers, but not vice versa, and wou won't be able to see them in My Network Places. You have to do the following:

On a laptop, connect to the wireless router's configuration page and turn off DHCP
Plug the cable going into the Internet or WAN port on the router into one of the LAN ports on the router (so ti goes from LAN on the wireless router to LAN on the wired router).

Then you should be able to get an IP address over wireless from the wired router through DHCP.

The reason it won't work there other way is because of NAT... the desktops can only get to the outside of the wireless router... they have no idea what's on the other side of it because it only has one IP address on the WAN side (192.168.1.4 currently) , no matter how you configure the LAN side. Since it's a router, when the laptops on wireless broadcast that they want to know who else is on the network, all the broadcasts stop at the wireless router and the other computers can't answer. If you get it going from LAN-LAN, then it will broadcast to all the other computers, they can answer to the laptop's specific address, and everythign will be just peachy.

[adec234]

And also let alll of them have desame workgroup name with different PC name

[Romeo26222]

Guys I can't get it to work and when I configure the wireless ip it lose connection to internet I attached here a screenshot to what I am having in the working configurations so try to help me in this
This is the wireless confs


And this is the wired confs

[ScottGem]

Why are you using 10.1.1.. x

[retsoksirhc]

On the wireless, set DHCP to disabled. Set the IP address to 192.168.1.254.

On the wired, set the LAST DHCP address to 192.168.1.253

Take the cable that's going to the WAN or Internet port on the wireless, plug it in to one of the LAN ports.

That will basically turn the wireless into a bridge instead of a router.

[Romeo26222]

On the wireless, set DHCP to disabled. Set the IP address to 192.168.1.254.

On the wired, set the LAST DHCP address to 192.168.1.253

Take the cable that's going to the WAN or Internet port on the wireless, plug it in to one of the LAN ports.

That will basically turn the wireless into a bridge instead of a router.

When I try this my laptop can't get automatic ip and all connections stops:confused: