Home Networking Debocle

[Lax]

So I have 2 machines -

Vista & XP Home, on a wire, hooked to a router. Things are perfect. Both have internet, I have a shared folder that I can move files back and forth. Everythings working like it should.

Then I assign a static IP to my vista machine (because I host a website).

Now My file sharing is broken. Though both machines still live in the same workgroup, and independantly can both get on the net. I can not expand the full network on either machine to see the other.

Does anyone know How I fix my file sharing so that I can move stuff back and forth between the machines again?

Thanks for the help in advance. Apologies if this question has been answered before...but it has me slightly flustered over the past couple weeks trying to sleuth this.

My best lead is that both machines arent on the same subnet, but I don't know if that is possible only having 1 static IP. So if that is the solution, does anyone have some tips on how to make that work?

Thanks guys.

Lax

[johnwill]

For each of the machines, I'd like to see this.


Hold the Windows key and press R, then type CMD to open a command prompt:

In the command prompt window that opens, type type the following commands, one at a time, followed by the Enter key:

Note that there is a space before the -n or the /ALL, but there is NOT a space after the - or / in the following commands.

NBTSTAT -n

IPCONFIG /ALL

Right click in the command window and choose Select All, then hit Enter to copy the contents to the clipboard.
Paste the results in a message here.

If you are on a machine with no network connection, use a floppy, USB disk, or a CD-RW disk to transfer a text file with the information to allow pasting it here.

[Lax]

Setting SDK environment relative to C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0
.
Targeting Windows Vista x86 DEBUG


C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0>nbtstat -n

Local Area Connection:
Node IpAddress: [173.9.160.149] Scope Id: []

NetBIOS Local Name Table

Name Type Status
---------------------------------------------
LEFT <00> UNIQUE Registered
WORKGROUP <00> GROUP Registered
LEFT <20> UNIQUE Registered
WORKGROUP <1E> GROUP Registered
WORKGROUP <1D> UNIQUE Registered
..__MSBROWSE__.<01> GROUP Registered

C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0>ipconfig /all

Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : Left
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) 82566DC Gigabit Network Connecti
on
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-1B-FC-DF-F2-28
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::4ca7:e966:c16f:41f4%12(Preferred)
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 173.9.160.149(Preferred)
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.252
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 173.9.160.150
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 68.87.68.162
68.87.74.162
NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled

Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 10:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : isatap.{3F5FA3D9-5F7C-4C11-A7C3-6EF5B7D9A
A01}
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 7:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 02-00-54-55-4E-01
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IPv6 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 2001:0:4137:9e50:2835:b54:52f6:5f6a(Prefe
rred)
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::2835:b54:52f6:5f6a%9(Preferred)
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Disabled

Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 9:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : 6TO4 Adapter
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IPv6 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 2002:ad09:a095::ad09:a095(Preferred)
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 2002:c058:6301::c058:6301
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 68.87.68.162
68.87.74.162
NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Disabled

C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0>





Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Lax>nbtstat -n

Local Area Connection 5:
Node IpAddress: [10.1.10.120] Scope Id: []

NetBIOS Local Name Table

Name Type Status
---------------------------------------------
SMURF <00> UNIQUE Registered
SMURF <20> UNIQUE Registered
WORKGROUP <00> GROUP Registered
WORKGROUP <1E> GROUP Registered
WORKGROUP <1D> UNIQUE Registered
..__MSBROWSE__.<01> GROUP Registered

C:\Documents and Settings\Lax>IPconfig /all

Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : Smurf
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : comcast.keyscomputing.com

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 5:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : comcast.keyscomputing.com
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Linksys LNE100TX Fast Ethernet Adapt
er(LNE100TX v4) #2
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-18-F8-0A-83-57
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.1.10.120
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 10.1.10.1
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.1.10.1
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 68.87.68.162
68.87.74.162
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Monday, January 26, 2009 12:01:18 AM

Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Monday, February 02, 2009 12:01:18 A
M

C:\Documents and Settings\Lax>

[johnwill]

I'm confused! You have the two machines in totally different subnets, there is no way they're going to communicate that way! One is apparently on a router, the other has a public IP address.

What are these machines connected to, and exactly how are they connected?

[Lax]

See, thats what I'm talking about.

Both machines are connected to the router...Both machines have internet access.

My vista machine (when filesharing was working) WAS set to "Assign IP Automatically"

My XP machine (when filesharing was working) was, and still is set to "Assign IP automatically"

Then I assigned my static IP and corressponding Subnet, Gateway, & DNS to the Vista Machine.

Now I cant file share between the machines, thats the whole problem.

I can see that they are on different subnets, which I think is why I cant file share between them. I don't want to have to buy another static IP to fileshare. But I do not know how to configure my XP machine to "Assign IP Automatically" and at the same time, use the same subnet that my Static IP is in.

This is my first question in over 15 years of home networking, I can't seem to answer for myself.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks in advance

[johnwill]

I can't even imagine how that machine on the public IP address is talking at all over the router, since it's clearly in a different subnet than the router.

You need to assign the static IP address in the same subnet as the other machine in order to network them. That would be 10.1.10.x and outside the range of the router's DHCP server address pool, exclude 10.1.10.0 and 10.1.10.255 as they are reserved addresses.