Networking problem

I have a home network consisting of a XP sp3 laptop, a Vista Home laptop and
a Netgear DG834 router.
When connected via wireless networking everything works fine, both computers
can connect to the internet and can access shared folders and printers.
However if I connect the XP laptop directly to the router via a cable (I
haven't tried this with the Vista machine) it can still access the internet
but the machines cannot see or access the shared folders/printers on the
other machine. Both laptops are in the same workgroup and using the command
line can ping each other.

Does anyone have any ideas why I cannot access the shared folders?

I sometimes need to transfer large amounts of data between the laptops and
would prefer to have one plugged into the router for this as it should be
faster then having both accessing the network via wifi for the transfer. I
know plugging both into the router would probably be the fastest solution
but this is not practical.

James

It's possible that the Netgear box has "security features" that separates
the Wired from the Wireless Clients.

Beyond that,...don't know,...I don't use one of those.

or,....Change the situation so that it "is" practical to connect both via
cable.


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"James Screech" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I have a home network consisting of a XP sp3 laptop, a Vista Home laptop
>and a Netgear DG834 router.
> When connected via wireless networking everything works fine, both
> computers can connect to the internet and can access shared folders and
> printers. However if I connect the XP laptop directly to the router via a
> cable (I haven't tried this with the Vista machine) it can still access
> the internet but the machines cannot see or access the shared
> folders/printers on the other machine. Both laptops are in the same
> workgroup and using the command line can ping each other.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas why I cannot access the shared folders?
>
> I sometimes need to transfer large amounts of data between the laptops and
> would prefer to have one plugged into the router for this as it should be
> faster then having both accessing the network via wifi for the transfer. I
> know plugging both into the router would probably be the fastest solution
> but this is not practical.
>
> James