alleymap said:
I have a laptop and a home pc and am having a hard time connecting the two. All I want is to be able to connect my laptop (it has a wireless card) to my home pc for print sharing and download data. I keep seeing high speed connection for my router and all i have is AOL dialup. I have a DLINK router, print server and nic card in/hooked to my home PC. and am having trouble communicationg.
Your AOL dialup runs via the internal modem. You can share that connection,
but deal with that after your sharing is working.
You can cable the two systems to your router on the LAN side and leave the WAN slot empty.
Use the desktop browser to access the DLINK config, typical URL is
192.168.0.1 or 192.168.1.1
you should get a prompt for userid/password -- see your manual.
You may need to force your nic to see the router IF the nic has never been
configured before;
set ip=192.168.0.10
set MASK=255.255.255.0
set gateway=192.168.0.1
set DNS=192.168.0.1
Enable the router for DHCP on the IP address and DNS. Save the config.
Go back to your NIC and use DHCP for both the IP and DNS
Both systems need to have the same
workgroup name
and you need to set your firewall for File/Print sharing.
using Run->cmd /k
you should be able to
find your IP address using ipconfig /all
ping your router using ping 192.168.0.1
ping yourself ping this-address
ping the other system ping that-address
For the target printer, use your Printers & Faxes panel, click the printer and right-click for properties -- enable sharing and give it a name
(eg Desktop-HP123)
Enable the directroy(ies) to be shared in a similary way.
