home network through router

[David Fletcher]

On Wednesday 23 September 2009 15:39:06 Eberhard Roloff wrote:
> David Fletcher wrote:
> > On Wednesday 23 September 2009 14:20:42 Paul S wrote:
> >> I want to share some folders between the laptops.
> >
> > I'm using Hardy, so I don't know for sure that it's still available in
> > Jaunty, but all I do is fire up Konqueror and use the fish protocol to
> > get into another machine over the network something like this:-
> >
> > fish://10.50.1.77/home/username/
> >
> > which asks for the user's passord, and you're in.
> >
> > You might need to make sure ssh and if I correctly remember the name
> > opensshserver are installed for this to work.
> >
> > Dave
>
> actually all of this depends on the router configuration.
>
> Either the router allows intercommunication between wired
> LAN and WLAN, or not.
>
> Most routers that I know (I never saw a Belkin router),
> separate LAN from WLAN by default for good reasons. If this
> is the case, you will need to deactivate this separation in
> order to activate intercommunication.
>

My router is a Belkin.

What mine does is, it has two WiFi passwords. One, which I call the "normal" 
password, gives access from wireless to wired devices i.e. to the LAN. The 
other password is called the guest password, which gives wireless devices 
access out to the Internet and nothing else.

Dave