I had a similar problem a couple of months ago.
I converted to wireless and couldn't get "interconnectivity" between my
networked machines and had the same error messages. On this forum,
someone suggested dis-abling file & printer sharing and re-enabling it.
It worked for my machines.
Who knows, might work for your laptop.
Mike.
William Warren wrote:
> Please help with an unusual problem.
>
> Here's the setup:
>
> Cable Modem
> Linksys BEFSR41 Wired Router/Nat box (4 port Ethernet Switch)
> Dell PowerEdge 600SC running Windows 2000 Professional, with shared
> Laserjet printer,
> connected to Ethernet switch via Cat 5 cable
> Linux 2.4 Whitebox PC running Samba file sharing, MySQL, and Apache,
> connected to Ethernet switch via Cat 5 cable
> Linksys WAP11 802.11B Access Point, with WEP enabled,
> connected to Ethernet switch via Cat 5 cable
> One Whitebox PC running Win98SE, with a shared Okidata printer and
> Linksys WMP11 PCI 802.11B card
> One Windows 2000 Pro Laptop, with Cisco 240 802.11B PCMCIA card
>
> All PC's, both wired and wireless, can use the Samba shares on the Linux
> server and the
> shared Laserjet printer on the W2KPro box.
> All PC's, both wired and wireless, can access the Internet OK.
> The wired W2K Pro PC can use the shared Okidata printer on the Win98SE
> (wireless) box.
>
> The problem:
>
> The laptop can NOT reach the shared printer on the (wireless) Win98SE PC
> when it is also using a wireless conneciton. The Win98SE PC appears in
> Network Neighborhood, but any attempt to reach it times out with a "Server
> ... could not be found on the network" error, and the laptop can't ping the
> IP address of the Win98 PC.
>
> However, when I disable the laptop's PCMCIA card, and connect the laptop via
> Cat 5 cable to the Ethernet switch, the Win98SE PC shares show correctly and
> print jobs run OK. Ping is also OK with the wired connection.
>
> * Since WEP is enabled, I'm sure the Laptop and Win98 PC are using the same
> access point
> * Running "arp -a" on the laptop shows the correct MAC address for the
> Win98SE PC following the timeout error
> * Both the laptop and the Win98SE PC show Good signal strength and have
> excellent download speeds from the Internet.
> * All machines are set to the same workgroup name. All are in the same
> subnet.
> * Disabling the wired connection on the laptop makes no difference.
> * I've tried adding the printer to the laptop using an IP address instead of
> the Win98SE PC's
> NetBIOS name, and there's no change: wired works, wireless doesn't.
>
> Please tell me how to cure this problem. TIA.
>
> William
>
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