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How do I network three computers connected to the same wireless router network together? One is wireless, the others are wired. The wired ones can already see each other and have been set up with a similar workgroup name, however I can't seem to figure out how to connect my laptop to this workgroup, or network, so that I can enable file and printer sharing between the two. Please help.

I really do not have enough information to answer this, but I will take a punt at it.
Assumptions:
You have a wireless router with switch built into it, probably a 4 port jobbie.
You have two PC’s connected to the back of the switch which are currently seeing each other.
Your laptop is connected to this device via wireless connection.
Your wireless router is acting as your DHCP server and you have all your PCs and laptop setup to use DHCP.
This means that all of your PC’s and laptop currently reside on the same subnet, probably 192.168.1.X
255.255.255.0This means that all the PC’s (including your laptop) should be able to see each other, if they can’t which you have said then this would mean that you have some windows settings to check.
Make sure that they are all on the same workgroup. Make sure that the firewalls are setup correct on each system—ie if you have firewalls on make sure that you have exclusions for your network IP address range 192.168.1.1 through 256.
If you want file and printer sharing, you will need to turn this service on, your NIC properties window is where you would do this.
Hope this helps.

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