Is this right?

atholon · #1 03-21-2005, 03:32 PM

Hey, is this right?

DevilDog#1 · #2 03-21-2005, 03:36 PM

If your router has 4+ ports, you can directly connect PCs to it and loose the switch.

Scott · #3 03-21-2005, 03:37 PM

what do you need the switch for?

I can hook up 4 computers to my router

it's right if you only have 1 port on the router

DevilDog#1 · #4 03-21-2005, 03:39 PM

Maybe he wants to add extra hardware security?

atholon · #5 03-21-2005, 03:40 PM

Ahh my friend was doing it...I think hw has more than 4 computers.

I am pretty sure it is right...not sure how many he has on his router.

Thing is when he hooks em up to just the router he cannot see any of his shared drives on the network.

But he can if he does it this way.

DevilDog#1 · #6 03-21-2005, 03:42 PM

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Originally posted by atholon
Ahh my friend was doing it...I think hw has more than 4 computers.

I am pretty sure it is right...not sure how many he has on his router.

Thing is when he hooks em up to just the router he cannot see any of his shared drives on the network.

But he can if he does it this way.

OS?

He needs to active Sharing on all PCs

atholon · #7 03-21-2005, 03:43 PM

He did.

I think he has Server 2003 or 2000 on one I am not sure about rest.

DevilDog#1 · #8 03-21-2005, 03:46 PM

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Originally posted by atholon
He did.

I think he has Server 2003 or 2000 on one I am not sure about rest.

I've W2K, ME, XP, and 98. connected via wireless router I had to turn on sharing on all of them to view their contents.

I also installed Router software on all of them.

atholon · #9 03-21-2005, 04:06 PM

Yeah I am pretty sure he did that. He seems to know his stuff. He just wanted to see if it was something wrong with the "topography" of the network.

If it is hooked up to just a switch it works fine but not when just connected to the router.

I think it is something like a built in firewall that is blocking it through the router...

DevilDog#1 · #10 03-21-2005, 04:09 PM

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Originally posted by atholon
Yeah I am pretty sure he did that. He seems to know his stuff. He just wanted to see if it was something wrong with the "topography" of the network.

If it is hooked up to just a switch it works fine but not when just connected to the router.

I think it is something like a built in firewall that is blocking it through the router...

Yep. That's the only thing that could do it.

atholon · #11 03-21-2005, 04:30 PM

Maybe he has a way of turning it off..I don't mess with routers a lot...ever...I have a wireless accesspoint/dsl modem and that is all I use.

DevilDog#1 · #12 03-21-2005, 04:33 PM

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Originally posted by atholon
Maybe he has a way of turning it off..I don't mess with routers a lot...ever...I have a wireless accesspoint/dsl modem and that is all I use.

Prolly in the admin portal on the web for the router.

atholon · #13 03-21-2005, 04:45 PM

I dunno if his router lets you do the 192.168.0.1 think on it like mine does. We'll have to see.

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