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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
was your old lan on the same subnet?
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Yes but was detected as 192.168.0.1/255.255.255.0
After introducing SuperHub it's detected as 192.168.0.
0/255.255.255.0
Ipconfig still shows the gateway as 192.168.0.1
Pings are returned from 192.168.0.1
Pings are not returned from 192.168.0.0
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Quote:
Originally Posted by foddy
If your firewall is blocking broadcast, then that will be a problem. NetBIOS name lookups broadcast on your LAN to discover the IP address of the name you're trying to access.
Unless you have a HOSTS/LMHOSTS entry for the name, you then wouldn't be able to resolve it to an IP address and so couldn't access it by name.
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Thanks for the help but I will have to do a bit of research into HOSTS/LMHOSTS and NetBIOS before I am able to make a sensible reply. It's starting to get a bit out of my depth.
