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cyrnel · 10-25-2005, 02:58 PM

If a wireless interface isn't up and running with an access point (or another ad hoc system) it's considered "unplugged".

Is it possible your wireless access point is on the WAN side of your desktop router, and the windows sharing is being filtered/firewalled?

Where's the WAP?

Code:

Desktop-\             
         >router?<
Desktop-/         \-WAN port with Cable/DSL Modem?

Basically, what's the topology? What's connected to what? Which are routers or access points starting from your DSL/cable box? Multiple private network ranges?

I don't want to jump into the middle of things but the posts above leave me with questions. It's always easier if we can "see" the net.

10-25-2005, 02:58 PM	#13 (permalink)
cyrnel Adequate Location: In my angry-dome.	If a wireless interface isn't up and running with an access point (or another ad hoc system) it's considered "unplugged". Is it possible your wireless access point is on the WAN side of your desktop router, and the windows sharing is being filtered/firewalled? Where's the WAP? Code: Desktop-\ >router?< Desktop-/ \-WAN port with Cable/DSL Modem? Basically, what's the topology? What's connected to what? Which are routers or access points starting from your DSL/cable box? Multiple private network ranges? I don't want to jump into the middle of things but the posts above leave me with questions. It's always easier if we can "see" the net. __________________ There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195