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pk_fox

Hi all, my LAN consists of wired and wireless devices is it possible to share data between the two ? e.g can I mount a volume on a wireless laptop from a wired PC ? ( hope you understand what I'm asking )

MartyBartfast · Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 2:46 pm Post subject:

Simple answer is yes, the fact that some are wired and some are wireless won't make any difference. If the the boxes are on the different subnets (e.g. 192.168.1.x & 192.168.0.x) then it might complicate matters a little but it's still possible.
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pk_fox · Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 10:06 am Post subject:

Hi there, thanks for replying, the wired/wireless are on different subnets - the wired is on 192.168.1.x and the wireless on 172.16.31.x

nelz · Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 11:35 am Post subject:

Then it's not a LAN, it is two LANs. Is there any particular reason for doing this, such as providing wireless access to other but wanting to keep them out of the wired LAN? If you is a private network, the simplest option is to reconfigure it as a single LAN.
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pk_fox · Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 12:40 pm Post subject:

Hi Nelz, the only reason it's setup like this is , it's the way my Sonicwall router is configured at the factory. Are you saying I can put both LANs on the 192 subnet ?

Thanks

nelz · Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 1:25 pm Post subject:

I'm saying don't have two LANs. Put all devices on the same subnet and they'll all be part of the same LAN. There is no problem mixing wired and wireless devices, it's all ethernet. Give your access point an IP adres on your wires LAN (it is, after all, connected to it by wire) and have it serve up IP addresses in the same subnet from its DHCP server.

If you already have a DHCP server on the wired network, disable the server on the AP, running two DHCP servers is asking for trouble without very careful configuration.
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pk_fox · Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 1:58 pm Post subject:

Hi Nelz, think there's some confusion creeping in here ( probably me ) my wired Lan and wireless Lan are both using a Sonicwall router, it's just that some of my PC's plug in the back of it, I tried changing the wireless IP address on the router and received an error about invalid address. There's only one dhcp server running and it's configured to dish up ranges 192.168.1.2 - 192.168.1.254 for the wired part and 172.16.31.2 - 172.16.31.254 on the wireless side. I don't know if this is changeable.

nelz · Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 11:03 pm Post subject:

Ah, I've not seen that in a SoHo router before, certainly not by default. If the router is insisting on using separate networks for wired and wireless, there must be an option to set up routing between them.
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pk_fox · Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 10:49 am Post subject:

Thanks I will check