Vista - Network access through switch

PC and laptop run Vista Ultimate. Printer is hooked up to PC's parallel
port. Network is Laptop - wireless hub - switch - PC. I can't print or
share files, even with firewalls turned off.

How do you get the network to see beyond the switch? If I connect the PC to
the wireless hub via an ethernet cable, everything works fine.

Check to make sure that your "wireless hub" isn't actually a wireless
router. If it is, the switch should be plugged into the LAN side of the
wireless, with the WAN port going to the Internet connection.

"beckham" <beckham@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BF16303B-3D56-4ECB-B018-2BDD46C9A682@microsoft.com...
> PC and laptop run Vista Ultimate. Printer is hooked up to PC's parallel
> port. Network is Laptop - wireless hub - switch - PC. I can't print or
> share files, even with firewalls turned off.
>
> How do you get the network to see beyond the switch? If I connect the PC
> to
> the wireless hub via an ethernet cable, everything works fine.

Michael,

It is indeed a switch - Belkin 5-port Gigabit Switch F5D5141-5. I have
shared all files (everything) on both computers. Each computer proclaims:
You do not have permission..."

"Michael A. Bishop (MSFT" wrote:

> Check to make sure that your "wireless hub" isn't actually a wireless
> router. If it is, the switch should be plugged into the LAN side of the
> wireless, with the WAN port going to the Internet connection.
>
> "beckham" <beckham@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:BF16303B-3D56-4ECB-B018-2BDD46C9A682@microsoft.com...
> > PC and laptop run Vista Ultimate. Printer is hooked up to PC's parallel
> > port. Network is Laptop - wireless hub - switch - PC. I can't print or
> > share files, even with firewalls turned off.
> >
> > How do you get the network to see beyond the switch? If I connect the PC
> > to
> > the wireless hub via an ethernet cable, everything works fine.
>

Yes, but I asked about your "wireless hub" -- the switch is a switch, that's
fine. Most consumer wireless access points are also routers.

But getting permission-denied errors is different from not being able to
reach the other computers. What feedback do you get if you click Diagnose
from the error dialog? Do you have a third-party firewall installed? Many
of those restrict their open ports to machines in the same subnet, which
would bring us back to the question of whether your AP is a router. In
order to enable sharing in that scenario, you would either need to put all
machines in the same subnet, or configure your firewalls to trust both
internal subnets.

"beckham" <beckham@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:FF96C338-AE7E-4796-BA53-EAF5E90F95DF@microsoft.com...
> Michael,
>
> It is indeed a switch - Belkin 5-port Gigabit Switch F5D5141-5. I have
> shared all files (everything) on both computers. Each computer proclaims:
> You do not have permission..."
>
> "Michael A. Bishop (MSFT" wrote:
>
>> Check to make sure that your "wireless hub" isn't actually a wireless
>> router. If it is, the switch should be plugged into the LAN side of the
>> wireless, with the WAN port going to the Internet connection.
>>
>> "beckham" <beckham@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:BF16303B-3D56-4ECB-B018-2BDD46C9A682@microsoft.com...
>> > PC and laptop run Vista Ultimate. Printer is hooked up to PC's
>> > parallel
>> > port. Network is Laptop - wireless hub - switch - PC. I can't print
>> > or
>> > share files, even with firewalls turned off.
>> >
>> > How do you get the network to see beyond the switch? If I connect the
>> > PC
>> > to
>> > the wireless hub via an ethernet cable, everything works fine.
>>