Wireless Networking Notworking (partly)

I have a few computers on my home network, 2 desktop PCs with wired
network, and 1 wireless laptop. Router is a Linksys wag160n.

The 2 desktops are running WinXP Pro, and can share files, view each
other, both access internet. The laptop is running Vista Business also
works fine when plugged in.

However, on wireless, the laptop cannot see the network connections of
the WinXP computers, and cannot print to the network shared printers,
but internet works fine on the laptop.

Here's where it gets wierd...

ping desktop by name from the laptop fails
ping desktop by IP (192.168.1.100) succeeds, and after this has
succeeded, ping desktop by name also succeeds, and existing mapped
shares become accessible. However, it still often cannot print to
network shared printers, and still cannot browse to the shared
computers, except via existing mapped shares.

My temporary workaround has been to build in a startup script to ping
the desktop, but this only solves part of the problem, and also doesn't
work if the laptop is started first.

This network setup has worked in the past with a different network hub,
seperate from the ADSL router. The new network hub is all-in-one, but
as far as I can tell, it is all setup the same way. (Old one broke, so
I can't go back). Network addresses are assigned by the network router.
(router box does say that it is vista compatible)

I have tried the following...

1) reconfiguring the networks on both ends.
2) specifically disabling/enabline netbios in the TCP/IP configuration
at both ends.
3) "netsh winsock reset catalog"
4) "nststat -R"

Anyone got any ideas?


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Posting the result of ipconfig /all on both Vista XP here may help.

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"surfdabbler" <> wrote in message
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>
> I have a few computers on my home network, 2 desktop PCs with wired
> network, and 1 wireless laptop. Router is a Linksys wag160n.
>
> The 2 desktops are running WinXP Pro, and can share files, view each
> other, both access internet. The laptop is running Vista Business also
> works fine when plugged in.
>
> However, on wireless, the laptop cannot see the network connections of
> the WinXP computers, and cannot print to the network shared printers,
> but internet works fine on the laptop.
>
> Here's where it gets wierd...
>
> ping desktop by name from the laptop fails
> ping desktop by IP (192.168.1.100) succeeds, and after this has
> succeeded, ping desktop by name also succeeds, and existing mapped
> shares become accessible. However, it still often cannot print to
> network shared printers, and still cannot browse to the shared
> computers, except via existing mapped shares.
>
> My temporary workaround has been to build in a startup script to ping
> the desktop, but this only solves part of the problem, and also doesn't
> work if the laptop is started first.
>
> This network setup has worked in the past with a different network hub,
> seperate from the ADSL router. The new network hub is all-in-one, but
> as far as I can tell, it is all setup the same way. (Old one broke, so
> I can't go back). Network addresses are assigned by the network router.
> (router box does say that it is vista compatible)
>
> I have tried the following...
>
> 1) reconfiguring the networks on both ends.
> 2) specifically disabling/enabline netbios in the TCP/IP configuration
> at both ends.
> 3) "netsh winsock reset catalog"
> 4) "nststat -R"
>
> Anyone got any ideas?
>
>
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