Well... there's something going on with your firewall - and possibly the laptop address has changed. I'd suggest setting both laptop and PC so they're always at the same address when in your home. For the PC, seeing as it's not going anywhere, you can use control panel / network and just assign an address. For the laptop (and optionally, for the PC) use the DHCP server in your (hardware) firewall so each always has the same address.
Use ipconfig to make sure address assignments are what you expect, and ping to make sure that each machine is looking for the other at the correct address. Consider assigning your squeezebox/transporter(s) static addresses the same way. Now... in your software firewall(s) on each machine, make sure that all those (other) static addresses are trusted, have windows file access (might be called SMB or "windows networking"). [more advanced - ignore if it sounds like gibberish] Contra-wise, you might just give the entire network block permissions, but if you're using the standard class C non-routing block (192.168.0-1.N) that's IMHO a bad idea for your laptop (you'll have given permissions to almost every machine in any wireless network you connect to that's using a router with it's "default" settings). Fine for your PC, of course. If your hardware firewall's DHCP server allows it, I'd suggest using a different NR block. Maybe 10.NN.NN.NN or 172.16-23.NN.NN. In both cases use 24 bit (class C) masking (will look like 255.255.255.0 or /24 depending on the firewall). In my experience, you're particularly unlikely to run into a wireless network mapped to 172.17-22.NN.NN - and that'd make block permissions OK on your laptop. BTW & IMHO they're unused because most folks don't "get" non-whole-integer bit masking. -- bobkoure ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bobkoure's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14646 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=61080 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
