Networking

[Crusty-Wiwuh]

I'm trying to get internet to another computer through a wireless access point connected to this one. Both computers can ping the access point but not each other. These are the IPs I'm using:
On this (server) machine:
IP: 192.168.1.100
Subnet: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 192.168.1.1
And the DNS servers.

On the other machine:
IP: 192.168.1.105
Subnet: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 192.168.1.1
And the same DNS servers.

What am I doing wrong?

[Ravens-Grin]

I have a question, is the access point in lieu of a router? If that's the case, then the access point cannot do Network Access Translations, and in order to get the internet connected to the other computer you will need to put a router between the access point and the modem.

As to the reason that you cannot ping between the computers: it could possibly be due to the Windows Firewall preventing ICMP replies. What you need to do to double check to if this is happening is to open up a Command Prompt and type in "netsh firewall show icmpsetting". If it says something like disabled then that is why you cannot ping the your computer from the other one. If not, then maybe on the switch it prevents ICMP messages, but I highly doubt that.

[Crusty-Wiwuh]

I had this working perfectly before, but I reformatted my hard drive and after that it stopped working, so it's not a problem with hardware. I tried the netsh firewall show icmpsetting thing and it loaded something, but came up with nothing, what doesn that mean?

[Ravens-Grin]

So let me just reconfirm what the network is right now, ok? You have a cable/dsl modem connected to an access point, and from there you hook up a wire and/or have a wireless connection to one computer and the same for the other computer? Well, I might need some specifics now, like the brand of the AP, what OS'es your using(I've been assuming Windows XP), and any other description of your network.

[Crusty-Wiwuh]

I have a dsl modem that goes into this computer, and a wireless access point connected to the computer by an ethernet lead. So it goes

phoneline> modem> computer A> access point> receiver> computer B.

Sinse the only thing that's changed is this computer, I guessed the error is somewhere in the settings on this thing. I've spent about 3 hours on Google trying to find helpful info...

[Ravens-Grin]

Ok, then just look up how to configure the Internet Connection Sharing, that is what I believe is misconfigured.

[Crusty-Wiwuh]

I did but didn't find anything, I'll just have to try harder :p Thanks for your help