Router Problem

[Jim Herrmann]

This is the solution!  Easy deal.  Once the solution is revealed, of
course.  Thanks much to everyone who helped.  It's been yet another
educational experience.

Peace,
Jim

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Billy Crook <billycrook at gmail.com> wrote:

> Log in to the WGR614 and turn dhcp serving off.  Then set it's ip to
> something static, inside the subnet the WRT54g provides.  Then, move
> the cable that links it to the WRT to one of the computer ports, and
> leave the uplink port empty.  That's probably the simplest way to
> solve this, and what I did for a while with another netgear router
> that didn't have "pass thru" mode or any option to act only as an
> access point without nat.
>
> CIFS should actually work even through NAT so long as the client is
> inside, and the server is outside.  What won't work is "browsing" the
> network, as that relies on broadcasted advertisements that the client
> caches.
>
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 00:06, Jim Herrmann <kclug at itdepends.com> wrote:
> > Well, now back to my original problem.  I have two run of the mill
> routers.
> > I have a LinkSys WRT54G router/WAP that is connected to the cable modem.
>  My
> > shop building is too far away (120+ft) from the Linksys to make an
> effective
> > wireless connection out here, but I have ethernet running from the
> Linksys
> > to the shop building.  I have an old Netgear
> > WGR614 router/WAP that I can stick on the end of the ethernet cable, and
> I
> > can establish a network connection, I can get to the internet, etc.
>  That's
> > all cool.  The problem I have is that I can't get to our shared drive
> > (Buffalo Link Station NAS), which uses SMB, that has the bulk of our
> music
> > on it.  I could live without it, but it would be nice to have, and still
> be
> > wireless.  So, how do I configure the Netgear to "pass thru" the SMB
> > traffic.  I guess I want to set The Netgear up as a bridge, but donot see
> > any way to do that.
> >
> > Any thoughts on that one?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jim
> >
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