From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (account lgrosenthal HELO [192.168.100.22]) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTPSA id 2344177 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Sun, 04 Apr 2010 16:47:48 -0400 Message-ID: <4BB8FAF2.7000505@2rosenthals.com> Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2010 16:47:46 -0400 Organization: Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090827 MultiZilla/1.8.3.5g SeaMonkey/1.1.18 (PmW) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] connected to home WiFi but not communicating References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, Will... On 04/04/10 03:40 pm, Will Honea thus wrote : > ** Reply to message from "Phil Parker" on > Sun, 04 Apr 2010 10:13:09 -0400 > > > >> On 04/04/2010 at 07:11 AM, "Neil Waldhauer" >> wrote: >On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 05:57:13 >> -0400, "Phil Parker" >> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Turning the radio off and on gets me connected at 80% signal strength, but my >>>> two eCS machines don't see each other. The new one is the T43 with RC7 >>>> (silver) and the old one is a minitower with 1.25+. >>>> >>>> Neither sees the other via "net view" on the command line or via the Servers >>>> list in "Create a connection". >>>> >>>> Now what stupid thing have I done wrong? >>>> >>> There are two problems. Both are pretty easy to fix. >>> 1. I don't think I installed NETBIOS on the WiFi adapter. >>> >> Done. >> >> >>> 2. Your domain name needs to be the same as your local network. >>> >> Done. >> >> Now "net view" still shows only the T43, but "net view \\name" shows all the >> shared resources on the other machine. >> >> In Sharing and Connecting, trying to make a connection shows only the T43 as a >> server. >> >> What do I need to do to get my other machine to show up on "net view" -- and >> then, presumably, on the server list in Sharing and Connecting? >> >> I've never had two machines before, so thanks for the patience of everyone so >> far. >> >> > > The client on one or both machines may not be properly broadcasting its' name. > I see that fairly often, especially with OS/2. Another way to check for > machines on the network is to do a broadcast ping: > > ping 192.168.xxx.255 (or 192.168.xxx.0 - can't recall which is more universal). > > On a class C network, .255 is the broadcast address. > That should get you a list of IP addresses of all listeners on the xxx subnet > where xxx is the corresponding values from the IP of the machine you are using. > > Of course, if NetBIOS over TCP/IP isn't set up, this won't make much difference in Phil's case. If it is, the router needs to be configured to forward b-node broadcasts for name resolution (many default to "off" for this). As I've said before (in several places), I'm surely no expert with NetBIOS networking, as I rarely use it. A couple links which may help, Phil: http://www.mit.edu/activities/os2/peer/WARPPEER.HTM http://www.jacco2.dds.nl/samba/warp.html http://www.os2notes.com/archives/os2ezine/v2n8/letters.htm http://ps-2.kev009.com:8081/ohlandl/NIC/sea.htm HTH -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------- Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC www.2rosenthals.com Need a managed Wi-Fi hotspot? www.hautspot.com visit my IT blog www.2rosenthals.net/wordpress -------------------------------------------------------------