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Ozmael
05-20-2003, 10:59 PM
I've got a Toshiba laptop with WinXP Pro SP1 with a Compaq WL110 Wireless PC Card. It connects wirelessly to a D-Link DWL-6000AP.

From the laptop I can connect with no problems to all of my network resources including file shares, printers and the shared Internet connection.

However, I cannot connect from any wired PCs back to the laptop's shared file shares. I cannot even ping the wireless laptop.

If I connect the laptop via Ethernet, then I can easily ping and connect to file resources on the laptop.

Does anyone know of a configuration setting/option that would prevent a connection to a wireless laptop but permit it when it is wired?

Regards,

Ozmael

Greenstead
05-22-2003, 08:47 PM
The only thing that seems to fit is a firewall on the laptop. Maybe the XP ICF on the wireless connector.