I set up a wireless network in my home with four computers. I have a Siemens SpeedStream 2624 router, connected to a WinMe PC with the ethernet cable via the LAN1 port, connected to broadband cable modem through the WAN port, and connected to the other 3 PC's wirelessly via 802.11b, each with a different wireless card or adapter (Siemens, Belkin, Linksys). All four computers can surf on my broadband internet connection directly through the router no problem. All four computers can surf to the DHCP Server in the router to see the settings (IP address is 192.168.254.254 and subnet mask is 255.255.255.0)again no problem. And the DHCP Clients were all automatically added when I configured the LAN (manually on Win9x machines and with the wizard on WinMe) and all four computers can see in the DHCP server the IP addresses for all the other computers (192.168.254.2, -.3, -.4, and -.5) and their names. Everybody is happy, yes?
No! None of the computers shows up in network neighborhood of any other computer! We all have the same workgroup name. I have linked TCP/IP to the proper adapter for each computer, I have set the properties to obtain IP address automatically, Disable DNS, enabled file and print sharing, selected specific files to share, enabled password protection, and I have turned off firewalls, rebooted everybody repeatedly, checked the cables, and of course the router seems fine as I can surf. If I change the TCP/IP properties (such as manually inserting the IP addresses) I just end up diabling all my internet connections, and I still don't have the LAN. I called all the tech support people who just shrug. I can't believe this has never happened to anyone else when it happened on four computers in one house.
I would be eternally grateful to anyone who can explain how to methodically track down the problem and get these four machines into one network neighborhood on the LAN.
