ME to Xp network unabel to connect

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Rick - 25 Mar 2005 08:35 GMT

Hi

Is there a trick to getting a ME machine to connect to a XP home machine via
a wireless network? I currently am running Me on a laptop with Dlink
wireless to a Dlink router. I am using DSL. I know the problem lies with the
ME machine as I tried the card on another laptop, but with XP and it worked
fine.

I have ran both the XP and Me network setup wizards with no joy. I also have
tried the wizard choices of connect direct with the card and through another
computer.

In checking the control panel TCP is bound to the Dlink card. Also Client
and file sharing installed. Universal Plug and pray is also installed.

I have also tried the virtual network and ICS on the ME machine with no
luck.

Any suggestions greatly appreciated

Thanks
Rick

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Steve Winograd [MVP] - 25 Mar 2005 09:45 GMT

>Hi
>
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>Thanks
>Rick

Since you have a wireless router, you don't need ICS. If you've
enabled or installed ICS on either computer, disable or un-install it.

I'm sorry, but I don't know what you mean by "the virtual network". I
don't think that you need it.

Forget the Me wizard. Run XP's wizard on both computers, and tell it
that they connect to the Internet through a residential gateway
(router).

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N. Miller - 25 Mar 2005 23:39 GMT

> Is there a trick to getting a ME machine to connect to a XP home machine via
> a wireless network?

Not that I am aware of. I've never played with a mixed network in the
wireless environment, but I never had trouble associating a mix of WinME and
WinXP computers. It has always been "plug and go" in my experience.

> I currently am running Me on a laptop with Dlink
> wireless to a Dlink router. I am using DSL. I know the problem lies with the
> ME machine as I tried the card on another laptop, but with XP and it worked
> fine.

> I have ran both the XP and Me network setup wizards with no joy.

After my first Winodws LAN, two WinME computers, I have never run the
Network Wizard on any other network.

> I also have tried the wizard choices of connect direct with the card and
> through another computer.

You are connecting through a router; technically a computer, but probably
not what that choice recognizes as such.

> In checking the control panel TCP is bound to the Dlink card. Also Client
> and file sharing installed. Universal Plug and pray is also installed.

> I have also tried the virtual network and ICS on the ME machine with no
> luck.

ICS should never be used when there is a broadband router in the mix. All it
does is turns the computer it is running on into a router. That computer
will need +1 NICs over the number of computers in the LAN; one NIC per
computer, and the "+1" NIC for the Internet connection. Assumes a broadband
connection to an Ethernet modem connection; USB or telephone connection
changes that.

> Any suggestions greatly appreciated

Hmmm. No computer should be using WINS Resolution, or local DNS; unless you
know that they are available (I think they exist for computers attached to
NT Domain networks, not peer-to-peer LANs). Unless you know how to configure
a static network manually, all computers should be set to obtain IP
addresses automatically. Every computer which is going to access shared
resources must have Client for Microsoft Networks installed, and bound to
the NIC. Every computer which is going to offer shared resources must have
File and printer sharing for Microsoft Networks installed. Every NIC must
have TCP/IP bound to it. Every computer should have a unique name, but use
the same workgroup name. For most peer-to-peer LANs, Access Control should
be Share-level access control. On the File and printer sharing protocol, the
WinME computer probably needs the Browsemaster function disabled; it seem to
compete with the WinXP Browsemaster function and disrupt the network.

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