Cannot access Networked pc -Wireless networking issues

[Pollock]

Not noticed this until build 5744. Wireless connections shown in Network and Sharing seem to be constantly reviewed, my connection defined as Work keeps switching to Identifying. At home my other laptop does the same but during the Identifying it drops the Network discovery so I cannot access machines on my network.

Anyone else experiencing this?

Thanks

[Norberd]

Have you looked at Start>Network>Network Center?, over on the right, theres a link to change to Public, if you have it set to Private, and Private if its set to Public.

[NAYASA]

I managed to fix this issue by actually turning 'ON' the windows firewall in vista. Don't have time to investigate why that worked.

[Kerwin]

There are two issues here: bandwidth, and network access. You don't want people to be able to get from the public AP back into your private LAN and WLAN, but, if possible, you don't want to have your private LAN *double* NATted, either.

The "right" way to do this is to get a second dynamic address from your provider (which usually is not a problem; if they fuss, tell them you have an XBOX or something that isn't happy with your router -- since actually *running* an open AP probably violates your ToS); this way, both networks are only single NATted.

The alternative is to set the Ubuntu machine up as your NAT and firewall, and hang two WAPs off the back of it, on separate ethernet interfaces (for best security). This will, at the expense of a little more complexity, give you complete control of what you allow whom to do. Course, it ties up the Linux box as an appliance; you don't want to actually *use* it, if you can avoid it...