On 14 Nov 2006 19:30:46 -0800, Haris.Hadzimuratovic@gmail.com wrote:

>I do disable one when I test the other, although for some reason I have
>to disable the ethernet card, I can't disable the LAN connection by
>itself

That's odd. Try going into:
Control Panel -> Network
and right click on the ethernet LAN icon.
Select "disable". It shouldn't be necessary
to do this but the inability to disable the
ethernet connection strikes me as odd (or broken).

>I've limited it to my subnet on the firewall, and the laptop's own IP
>address has the lowest metric. [I've dedicated that IP to this physical
>address.]

How have you limited the subnet? What did you use for IP addresses
and the subnet mask? I don't want to assume that you've done this
correctly. I suggest you temporarily reset the subnet mask on the LAN
side of the router to 255.255.255.0. That should work and may be the
problem. You can reduce the size of the subnets later after it's
functional.

>Anyway, File and Print Sharing isn't even listed under exceptions, let
>alone checked. I'm not really sure where it's located on the drive for
>me to enable it, since it's not listed under other programs, either. If
>you can let me know how to add it, I will, but the filesharing works
>when they're wired. I can't explain the difference, either. But I have
>faith in this group.

Huh? It has to be listed for both the firewall and file sharing to
work. Try just turning off the firewall for now to demonstrate if
that's the problem. If it does nothing, we'll go hunting elsewhere.
If it fixes the problem, then it's in the setting somewhere.

The easiest way to enable file sharing is to just pick any obscure
folder, right click, and select "Sharing and Security". If you get a
dialog warning you about the risks of sharing and to continue at your
own risk, then you have sharing disabled and need to turn it on. At
one point, you have a choice that says something like "Just turn on
sharing and don't bug me". That's what I usually select. Hopefully,
that will also add the "File and Print Sharing" exception to the
Windoze firewall.

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