Well firstly I should have asked if you have any third party firewall.
By default, the windows firewall, once it is allowing file and printer
sharing, will allow for all scope, that is all IP addresses. However,
you can set a scope, but i don't think that that may be the problem, but
check anyway.
To check, open the windows firewall settings. You can get that from the
network sharing center page at the bottom of the left hand pane. See if
it is on - if it's not then it will not matter, if it is on, then check
the exceptions list. Look for file and printer sharing and see if any
scope is set for any of the ports, then adjust to suite.
My guess will be that you have a third party firewall like McAfee or
Symantec. That's a little trickier for me, you will have to read your
manual on that one. Usually you will be prompted to allow the connection.
Don't know if this helps.
Sachin
Helboy wrote:
Quote:
> OK, I'll double check the Firewall.
>
> However, the client is less than straight forward for checking.
>
> Any tips on that area?
>
> "Sachin" wrote:
> Quote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would check the firewall rules. I don't know much about the Juniper
>> device, but it sounds like you have done the correct thing there, but
>> double check it.
>>
>> Also, check the firewall rules on the clients. The rules may allow file
>> sharing traffic only on the same subnet.
>>
>> Sachin
>>
>>
>> Helboy wrote: Quote:
>>> 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?
>>>