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Mac Forum / General / Networking / July 2005Problem using OS X personal file sharing on wireless network
Greetings As I posted some time back, I have a small wireless network set up in my house. I am using two Linksys WRT54G wireless routers instead of Apple AirPort equipment. The network currently consists of two Macs and two routers: a dual 2GHz G5 (OS X 10.4.2) on the third floor, which is hooked by Ethernet to a Linksys WRT54G in Access Point mode. This router also has the cable modem hooked to it. Then there's a Quicksilver 2002 G4 933 (OS X 10.3.7) on the first floor. The G4 is hooked by Ethernet to another WRT54G router, this one in Client mode. See <http://www.linksysinfo.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=2991> for a tutorial on how to configure the two routers so that they can work together with one router acting as an access point and the other acting basically as a low-cost wireless Ethernet bridge. This works great except for one thing: while I can, using Finder -> Go -> Connect to server... log in to the G4 from the G5 and mount its shared directories, I can't do the same from the G4 to the G5. It says something like, "No response from server". I have Personal File Sharing turned on on the G5, but still nothing. I can, however, ping the G5 from the G4, so it's not like the G4 can't see the G5 at all. Hmmm... Any ideas as to why I can't get this to work? Any help/suggestions are appreciated!  Signature-Bo Parker The email address in the header is fake. Okay well the G4 on the client router isn't getting it's ports accessible. You should go into the client setup and use Port Forwarding to connect the AFP ports from the Linksys to the Sveasoft router. I forget what port is AFP, 548 maybe. You might find the port tables under "Applications and Gaming", I forget exactly. -- Gnarlie http://Gnarlodious.com/ Gnarlodious said: > Okay well the G4 on the client router isn't getting it's ports > accessible. You should go into the client setup and use Port > Forwarding to connect the AFP ports from the Linksys to the > Sveasoft router. I forget what port is AFP, 548 maybe. You might > find the port tables under "Applications and Gaming", I forget > exactly. Thanks for your reply. I just tried that. I went through a similar exercise to the one I went through when I (successfully ;) forwarded a port on the third floor G5: In System Preferences -> Networking, I set the G4 to a static IP address (192.168.2.160) that's outside the DHCP range of the router. In the G4 (client) router's setup page, I went to Applications and Gaming, entered the AFP ports (548 and 427 I think) and enabled port forwarding to 192.168.2.160, both protocols, on those ports. But still no joy. "Server not responding" or some such. I'm definitely not a networking expert, but I think the issue may be that the G5 and the main router are on 192.168.1.* while the G4 and client router are on 192.168.2.*. I had to set up a static route in the routing table of the main router to make it to where I could log in for Personal File Sharing to the G4 from the G5. (I want to go the other way around - I want to be able to log in with Personal File Sharing to the G5 from the G4 so I can play music etc. on the G4 in the pool room, but reading from the G5's hard disk over the network.) Maybe I'll try to go through similar steps on the client router that I did to set up a static route on the main router. Or if you have other suggestions, let me know. Thanks again! Signature-Bo Parker The email address in the header is fake. > Greetings > [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] > Any ideas as to why I can't get this to work? Any > help/suggestions are appreciated! Can you configure the 2nd router to "Bridge" instead of "Route"? Generally this entails turning off "DHCP" and "NAT" services on that router. Then it just bridges between the ethernet and Wifi. In Bridge mode, everyone is on the same subnet. Part of your problem could be that Boujour (Aka Rendezvous, aka ZeroConf) intentionally does not cross a router. That is to say it will not travel between subnets. And what you describe has 2 subnets. One for each router. Bob Harris Bob Harris said: > Can you configure the 2nd router to "Bridge" instead of > "Route"? The firmware I currently have installed on the client router (sveasoft alchemy) doesn't have bridge mode. It's in client mode, and has to be on a different subnet. It looks like the newest version of the DD-WRT firmware has "transparent Client Bridge Mode", and I'll probably just end up waiting until that's finished and halfway decently documented. > Part of your problem could be that Boujour (Aka Rendezvous, > aka ZeroConf) intentionally does not cross a router. That > is to say it will not travel between subnets. And what you > describe has 2 subnets. One for each router. I can currently log into the G4 at 192.168.2.160 from the G5 at 192.168.1.160, but I have a static route to the 192.168.2.* subnet set up in the G5's router. I'll probably try to set up a static route to the 192.168.1.* subnet in the G4's router and see if that works. Signature-Bo Parker The email address in the header is fake. |
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