Xp/vista/lan workgroup..?

Question

Alright..
So we have a Network with fixed Ips, and in our lil front office we decided we wanted to add a wireless router so we could move around with some of the laptops.
WE dont really have on sight IT people, we basicaly have a company that sets stuff up and certain people have responsibilites.
So The lady that Can go on the network and allow an IP got one for us.
We plugged the wireless router in, and went into the setting and changed to default IP to the one we were assigned, did all the DNS/subnet blah blah stuff as required.
How we hooked it up was we had an ethernet cord frunning from one comptuer to the wall, ew put a ethernet switch on that and ran one to router and one to a compupter already networked/on workgroup, it worked fine.
After setting were in Router we could see it and log on to it via wifi.
So thats all golden.
Do we need alowed IPs for each computer? Or just tell it to access workgroup some how? ..thanks sorry if this is confusing.

Answer 1

In your configuration if you go to the switch first and then the router the units connecting wirelessly will be on a different set of addresses from the computers on the opposite side of it.

Think of the router as a wall, The external side is WAN (internet) and in your case the "other computers" the internal side is LAN or local. The router actually keeps the WAN from communitcating with the LAN by design. So unless ALL the computers in your network are attached to the LAN side they probably will NOT communicate with your wireless machines!

This all has to do with the IP addressing scheme assigned by the router. This can be set so that all the addresses issued are within the same "range" as the internal machines If all that is setup properly and the router is set up as a bridge rather than a router you should be able to get it working.

Or just move the ROUTER to be the VERY FIRST device in the local network! All computers will then connect to the LAN side of the router. (You may want to change all machines to use DHCP and let the router handle the IP's for them.)

In all honesty, hiring a pro for an hour would save you a ton of headaches.

Answer 2

your questions is so confused but i can understand , coz i am a i.t solution team member, here is tip that u have to configure your routers ip addresses as DHCP configuration with you off ip addresses, if you follow a class ips like 10.0.0.1 , if u follw b class 172.16.0.1 , or if u follw class c 192.168.1.1 then u decide one ip address for your router and enabled DHCP it means that Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol it will apply ip addresses to your wireless lan or your laptop.... u can also disable ssid broadcast if u want secure it...

Answer 3

in the foremost laptop the place the printer is put in, purely bypass to the Printer folder interior administration Panel. splendid click your multi function printer and then click Sharing. click on share this printer in the window that opens and then hit ok. Get the IP handle of your laptop, bypass to start, Run, form "cmd" enter, form "ipconfig" enter. Write down the place it says "community section Connection" IP handle: "numbers with dots". After this, pass to the laptop without a printer. in the different laptop, bypass to start, Run, form "ipaddress" the place ipaddress are the numbers of the 1st laptop. while a homestead windows opens asking for someone call and password enter those credentials out of your laptop. If it would not ask that's going to be much extra appropriate. Now with this command you will open a folder and the printer would be there. Double click the printer and now the 2d laptop would be waiting to apply it. BTW, the two computers could be in the comparable WORKGROUP. to learn this: splendid click My laptop icon on the laptop, bypass to residences, laptop call tab. There you will discover the WORKGROUP call or maybe substitute it.