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Old 01-20-2008   #6 (permalink)
Sachin
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Re: Windows Vista Home Networking

Ahh, that is right. I should have asked if you tried browsing via IP,
that is, \\<ip_address>.

Sachin

Chuck [MVP] wrote:
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> 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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