Wirless Networking

Right,

I have a wireless D-Link DI-524… I also Have one Laptop with xp Pro Installed I also Have one desktop PC with xp Home installed

The router has a firewall The Desktop has AVG Aswell as zonealarm The Laptop has avg

Both the laptop and the desktop can access the internet wirelessly

I have tried to set up file sharing, but was unsuccessful

They are in the same workgroup. Both Have file sharing enabled

Have you allowed the wireless connection into the trusted zone on the desktop with ZA?

i have alloud everything in the range yeas

Ok, so…. try that :

1. ping work between all machines?
2. scan machines and tell us if there are open ports
3. try to disable the firewalls (windows firewall and others)

Let us know

how on earth do i ping I have tried disabling both firewalls All ports are in stealth

Sorry if i dont understand…… You asked how to ping? And what do you mean whit all ports are in stealth?

type "sheilds up" in google and it scans all your ports. it says all of mine are open but are in "stealth"

lol dude, scan from a machine to another in your intranet

how would i go about doing that

file sharing is done by services and open ports, so….think

Ok, to ping, type this into command prompt: (assuming PC1 is 192.168.0.1 and PC2 is 192.068.0.1)

ping 192.168.0.1

You should get replies if it's working properly.

Next, get nmap.

Run it on one of your PC's like this:

nmap 192.168.0.1

Post the list of open ports for both computers.

how on earth do i ping

Funny and sad at the same time. Ping is used to send packets to a machine, and then expect a reply, of usually 100% of all packets sent. If it doesn't receive them back, then it assumes and reports to you that the machine is not "alive".

This is done with the TCP/IP Protocol (as opposed to UDP). Read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_Control_Protocol

so, if one of the machines on your local network has the IP, of say 192.168.1.40 and you wanted to see whether it is alive and accepting communication, you'd do:

ping 192.168.1.40

To help you remember what it does, remember the famous PoD (Ping of Death) crashes on old machines, when they receive too many packets they crash.

erm … i "pinged" 192.168.0.1 I managed to do the ping but not the nmap the ping came up with

4 SENT and 4 RECEIVED (there were looads of text but this bit seems important)

hell, just install an HTTP or FTP server on one machine, then download from the client. That'll get rid of the whole networking shabang!

lmao my pc's dont have that much hard disk space

ok now invert the ping…..i mean ping from the other machine now. And do the nmpa too from all the machines like that : nmap 192.168.0.1-254

Post results and we will can help

my cmd wont nmap

again 4 sent 4 received … Both PC's Said this on the "ping" request

Youre not in your net right? I suggest you dont do anything.

all pc's are on the same workgroup and access internet

my cmd wont nmap

Do you even have NMAP installed?

nope how do i install it

nope how do i install it

well, first you need wincap installed: http://www.winpcap.org/install/bin/WinPcap_4_0.exe

Then, nmap: http://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-4.20-setup.exe

Note, these are the latest releases. Then put the directory of NMAP in your systempath, from the control panel –> system –> environment variables –> PATH (edit), append the location of nmap preceded with a semicolon to the "variable value" text field.

rite installed wat do i type in command prompt

install also the gui for windows if you want

i did the nmap thing

1695 closed ports and i have a http port and a printer port 1 host up

If port 139 (I think that's the netbios port) isn't open, then you can't share files. Make all connections are allowed on port 139, then nmap again and post the output.

I'm sorry, but i can't believe you didn't know how to install a program, or ping…That's sad. end3r

see, since you're already running an HTTP server, why not put the files in your /wwww/ (web or localhost folder) then make the client get them.

Problem, solved. On the machine running port 80 (or whatever specific port your using, could be 8080) type in your browser:

http://localhost/ and the check that same location again when you've put the files in the DIR of http://localhost.

PEACE, i'll be able to help you more when I come back, dude.

because i dont reccon i have a http server

btw i think nmap much up my cmd … the "help" command wont work on regular cmd

i went to install the "latest" (see above) version of nmap and am having some trouble. my old nmap just said "CMD:" and you enter commands this one opens the dos prompt flashes a ton of text and closes… i have wincap 4.0 any ideas?

dw Guys, ty for helping ––END THREAD––

flashes a ton of text and closes

Dude, you didn't follow directions. You need to configure the system path to include the NMAP directory in it.

You can't just double click on nmap.exe and expect it to run in DOS. It doesn't work that way. If you don't want to configure the environment variables (in this case, the system path), then open up DOS and CD into the directory containing NMAP, then type in NMAP's binary name (or executable's name, if you will).

Let's not deviate from the original question of Dj_dotti.

@DJ_Dotti. Is it working yet? Have you tried http://localhost/ yet?

@netfish : I have fixed my cmd and my nmap, i have tried local host and it keeps timing out ….

You are going around in circles….

@DJDotti: You are an idiot. Read up on how to do it. If you can't even install nmap or traverse to the directory to use it, i don't know how you will expect to file share. Buy Windows XP for dummies

@netfish: That http port that was open on nmap scan, was open becase he was accessing the internet. It is not a web server on his PC….

Regards

Port 80 is open when you run a web server or blind another service to that port not when you surf internet. I think you need to read the mentioned book too. And edit your comment is offensive.