or a donkey berry punch.

 

wireless router
2x wireless cards

That would do your PC and the laptop.

I'm not sure on the printer. I've never shared one like that.

 

try finding a new job? seriously, it sounds like this place is interferring with your whoring abilities.

 

From what I'm gathering here, I'm thinking your IT guy set it up that way. Probably to keep unauthorized Laptops from getting on the network Doesn't really make sense though, because a lot of damage could be done in under 2 minutes by an intruder anyways...

Being given short leases is not a "problem" you can fix on your end. I'd try and discretely (or indescretely if you prefer) find out if the wireless network is setup to give short leases to unregistered computers.

 

It'd be funny if the guy left the router unsecure.

try going to 10.7.1.5 (your default gateway adress) in your web browser and try admin/password or admin/admin for the login info.

 

Done.

 

yeah like I know enough to go snooping around my network. No thanks.

"You've launched the pinkslip virus! good luck finding a new job."

 

or, find the IP range you are using for the network, and hard set a distant IP in the config so you are not using DHCP, which seems to be the problem

IE - your network is on a 192.168.1.x range, hard set your ip to 192.168.1.178 or something like that, and use 4.2.2.2 and 4.2.2.3 for your DNS servers

thats something to **** off the IT there, but hell, you are already doing that by trying to connect

 

oh yeah, your leases are set for like 2 minuets. Hardset your IP and you will be fine

 

If the Printer/Scanner/Fax/Copier/Toaster/Phone/Bathub is setup for wireless, then you should be good to go.

If its setup for wired networking, wire it near the router/switch.

If its not setup for either, then plug it into your desktop (like I'm assuming it already is). Browse to the "Printers & Faxes" folder. Right click on your printer, and scroll down to "Sharing." From there you can turn enable the printer sharing, give your printer a name, etc. Then, go to the wife's laptop, and add the networked printer. On her machine, go to "Printers & Faxes" and click on "New Printer." A new printer wizard will come up, and somewhere along the lines it'll ask you if its a locally connected printer or a networked printer. Select that and it'll search the network for shared printers. Find the one you shared on your PC. Now, anytime your PC is on, she can print anything from the laptop.

 

Nick,

there are a lot of new wireless routers with print servers built into them now, might be easier

 

Where do I edit those IPs? I poked around all the wireless screens I know (I've seen them before, but forget where).

 

Well you could always get wireless print servers. They're cheap these days.

 

Yeah, that would be a much better option. Just going with what I've got here.

 

Kevin,

right click on My Network places, hit propertys

right click on the network, hit propertys

on TCP/IP hit properties

input the IP and DNS, go about your post whoring