Best way to setup adsl on a simple lan?

Well I tried what you guys suggested but no luck. We turned on the guest account in SERVER and tried to access SERVER from BOB but still it wouldn't work. The error message we are getting is along the lines of SERVER could not be reached. There may not be a permanent connection to the network.
There is already a user account setup on the SERVER machine called BOB and we were using the same username and password to log onto the BOB machine.

This network worked fine before with a router and a switch and the only thing we have done differently is swapped the router for an adsl router and also swapped over BOB and SERVER where BOB now connects to the switch and SERVER connects to the router instead of the other way round, (Note the difference from my first diagram at the start of the post to my second diagram.) We did however put all machines directly to the router to see if this would help but it made no difference.
One thing I did notice was that when I go to the View workgroups option in the XP machine (SERVER) It shows two machines (KLARI) and (BOB server). Im wondering if maybe originally BOB was actually the server and it was a client server setup. The machine SERVER was only named that as that it where they backed up their files too (If you get what Im saying.) If so could this be the problem?? Just a thought.


I really need help with this and it would be great if someone was willing to step me through it on Messenger or something. As the adsl connection works fine on all machines Im sure our connections are fine and that we are almost there.

Thanks in advance.

confus-ed,

Ive just been reading more info at the website you gave me and I came across something that could be our problem. It says that the error message we are getting is common when a firewall is blocking access. Both SERVER and BOB have Nortons security installed. However we did enable the Ip address range on both of these machines as 192.168.1.100 to 192.168.1.106. Could this be the problem though? I can't disable them now as I am at home but will try it tomorrow. If it is the firewall though how come the adsl connection can still get through??? What do you reckon???

You've got a dsl router now, since you've obviously NAT'd the network from the outside world you won't need as much protection for right now. Get rid of Norton security on all machines that apply and check to see if that works. Don't forget to remove all settings and if a cleaner is available from Symantec to clean the registry of those settings get that too. This will eliminate any firewall connectivity issues. If it works after that, then apply norton security on one pc and run it like that for a while to see if everything works then install on the other.

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confus-ed,

Ive just been reading more info at the website you gave me and I came across something that could be our problem. It says that the error message we are getting is common when a firewall is blocking access. Both SERVER and BOB have Nortons security installed. However we did enable the Ip address range on both of these machines as 192.168.1.100 to 192.168.1.106. Could this be the problem though? I can't disable them now as I am at home but will try it tomorrow. If it is the firewall though how come the adsl connection can still get through??? What do you reckon???

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Thanks Shanff,

I will give what you suggest a try. Is it possible for the adsl connection to still get through even if the network traffic is blocked by the firewall? I thought the firewall would have blocked everything?

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I really need help with this and it would be great if someone was willing to step me through it on Messenger or something. As the adsl connection works fine on all machines Im sure our connections are fine and that we are almost there...

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I think you are ;) if you are like above ! .. follow shanff's advice on removing any localised firewall software for now (yup we can indeed add it back later for 'whitelisting' & extra security later) right now its just making this hard !

As for hardware firewalls stopping 'everything' they stop 'ins' not 'outs' - you initiate the connection with web access via your browser & any subsequent 'ins' are thereore 'ok' by your firewall ..

Personally if I give advice on the boards then I prefer, unless its something 'iffy' to answer as threads like this, so other folk can follow it later, but if you want to pm me we can try & arrange a time for me to be 'here' & try while you are 'there' if you like ? ;)
But I think you are very 'close' already .. we just need to pull it all together at once. .

Thanks guys for the help. We couldn't do anything yesterday as we were on red alert from the cyclone and had to stay inside. But today I phoned my mate and told him to disable the firewall on SERVER and call me back.


And yes you guessed it..It worked. I should have thought to do that in the first place as I had the same problem when setting up my LAN and my webserver.
I should have learnt by now.
He told me that he had opened a hole in the firewall for the router and the other machines and I didn't want to double check his work in front of him.

Im assuming we can leave the firewall disabled on this machine as we now have the router???
I just need to add a printer to BOB and KLARI that is connected to the SERVER.

Thanks again for the help.