laptop problem

[Aussie John]

doesnt seem to matter what I do i can never see the remote hosts on my laptop. I can put the ethernet cable backinto my desktop and it works fine.

I've checked the preferences and the network settings and they are identical.

Any ideas

Ideally I want to be able to use the airport connection but doesnt work either.

thanks

Edited January 18, 2006 by Guest

[Ender]

Hi John,

Can you clarify: Is it just the airport that's not working, or does Ethernet not work too? When you say you can't "see" remote hosts, do you just mean you don't see the host automatically? Can you see the host if you type in the IP address?

[Aussie John]

Hi ender

both Direct ethernet or airport- doesnt work even if I type the IP number directly into the favourites of the remote dialog. Cant see any Host files at all

[Wim Decorte]

Is your ethernet card configured for a static or dynamic IP address. And what about the desktop?

Also check that your OSX firewall is off.

[Aussie John]

Ive tried using the router to assign the ip number and by manually assigning the IP number (to match the desktop that I took the ethernat cable from)

There is no software firewall as every thing lives behind a network firewall router and a VPN

[Wim Decorte]

can you browse the internet from the laptop? can you ping the host machine?

[Aussie John]

Wim

I can access the internet, send/receive emails and mount shared volumes on the server. Just cant see the filemaker hosts.

[Wim Decorte]

Can you do the reverse: open a file on the laptop, set it shared and with FMP on the server, see if the file is listed.