On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 13:15:01 -0800, Helboy <Helboy@xxxxxx>
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?
Browsing between subnets generally requires a domain infrastructure, and a
domain master browser on each subnet. Browser SMBs don't generally traverse
subnets.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/08/browsing-across-subnets.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/0...s-subnets.html
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Cheers,
Chuck, MS-MVP 2005-2007 [Windows - Networking]
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/
Paranoia is not a problem, when it's a normal response from experience.
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