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Old 01-20-2008   #1 (permalink)
Helboy


 
 

Windows Vista Home Networking

Hello

I am a reasonably experienced Windows networking user (I have been
networking Windows PCs together since Win 3.1) and also a network engineer.

Vista has thrown an interesting issue up.

I have a Juniper SSG 20 router with an ADSL, wifi and Lan interface on it.
The way the Juniper works is it forces the wifi connection to be on a
different subnet than the wired network. So, I have a wired network of
192.168.1.X and 192.168.2.X for wifi.

If my PCs are on the same subnet (both on wired or both on wifi), no
problems. I can share and make network shares available.

If my PCs are on the different networks they cannot see each other and
network shares fail.

I can ping between the PCs when they are on different subnets, so net
connectivity is there.
I believe that the Juniper is set up correctly (I have set up a
bi-directional trust - any any between the two networks).

Has Vista introduced a new level of security preventing browsing between
subnets?

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