Hard wired computer can't connect to wireless computer.
From what I can nobody truly has a clue why this doesn't work. I have a computer connected hard wired into a router and a laptop connect wireless. They both can see each other but when I double click them to connect it doesn't do anything but say there is a problem connecting. Once I connect the laptop with a wire they have no problem seeing each other. Seems to be some bad programming on Microsofts fault for them to not properly recognize each other. Is there a fix at all for this other then the obvious. I have changed workgroup from home to public and went into each workgroup's settings and changed the proper things to on or off, reset router, same subnet, reinstalled drivers (proper ones) and many more with no luck other then running a wire to the laptop. Any help would be awesome, if no fix then sadly I have to wire it or reinstall Windows to see if that will do anything, does with most things for me.
April 25th, 2011 10:46pm

Hi, What the error message? Could you go to event viewer and share me the logs of error? Please use “Ping” command to each other and see the result. I suggest to boot with Safe Mode with networking to see if the same issue occurs. Also temporally disable firewall and antivirus software. Furthermore, please check if any firewall has set on the router. Hope that helps. Regards, Leo Huang Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.
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April 26th, 2011 10:22pm

When troubleshooting issues, you generally want to start at the lower layers, layer 1 (physical) and move up to layer 7 (application). Obvious things to check are the network cables, ports, etc... PING is always a good tool to use to quickly verify for network connectivity. Can each computer PING each other, yes, thats would be good. No, then there is no point in moving on until you resolve basic network connectivity. Continue moving up the layers until you reach the actual applications that are preventing the communication. What error messages are you seeing? Have you checked the computer's system logs, firewall logs, etc...? Visit: anITKB.com, an IT Knowledge Base.
April 26th, 2011 11:01pm

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