networking issue

[Paq]

Hi, here's how this works:
i have a cable modem and a wifi router connected ot the cable modem and computer 1.


in another room, i have a wifi router with dd-wrt that is acting as a repeater so my laptop can connect more easily in the back of the house.

both computers are running windows xp.

computer 1 and that router have 192.168.1.xxxx ip addresses

computer 2 and ddwrt router have 192.168.2.xxx ip addresses bc that's how the instructions i've found set it up. Now, if i connect the laptop to the first router, i can access computer 1's shared folders, but if i connect to the 2nd router, then i can't access comp 1's shared folders.

is there any way i can fix that? right now, i have the folders mapped ot a network folder, but for some reason, the 2nd router won't let me acccess the first router's workgroup.

any idea how to fix?

[Martian]

How are you accessing the shared folder? Is it through Network Neighborhood?

SMB doesn't like traversing subnets, and often causes issues when you try. Network Neighborhood makes it even worse -- it relies on broadcasting for discovery, which won't go past the repeater (again, because anything behind the repeater is on a different subnet).

Try typing the hostIP/folderlocation into Explorer's (Windows, not Internet) address bar and see if you can access it that way.

[Zweiblumen]

Like Martian said the problem comes from the computers beeing on diffrent subnets. From the info you gave i can't see a reason for having 2 diffrent subnets. If the reason is that dchp is enabled in both routers then they could be configured to use diffrent subset of the same subnet (ie. both use 192.168.1.XXX where the first uses addresses from 1 to 100 and the second uses addresses 200 to 250) There is also the possibility of just having 1 dchp.

Hope this is of some help.
Yours
ZB

[Paq]

i set it up to 2.1 bc that is what the instructions said and it was the only way i could get t to work. I don't know what i need to set it up to be for both to be on the same subnet. i cna set the dd router to be a dhcp repeater, but i am not sure what it asks for when the ip box opens up underneath.

i only have a basic understanding of routers/networking stuff in this case. I can follow directionsand think logically through things, but only after i understand what is going on, which isn't the case here...

aggravating.

oh, an i can't open the ip address of the computer i'm wanting to access, either. i can be on the wireless router and access the wired router, but i can't be on the other comp that is wired and access the wireless router, if that makes sense.

[Paq]

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