Airport Extreme recognizes wireless but not ethernet wired desktop PC

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Airport Extreme recognizes wireless but not ethernet wired desktop PC

Set up the network with multiple laptops (Mac and PC) and all seem to recognize each other, as well as iPhone. Desktop PC is ethernet wired to Airport and has internet access, but does not seem to be recognized as part of the network. Also the Airport utility on the desktop does not find any wireless network despite the original Microsoft utilities showing a good signal. Tried turning off the firewall, no difference. Clearly must be some kind of software setting blocking this. TCP/IP? Suggestions on how to proceed?

Custom, Windows XP

Posted on Mar 21, 2011 6:04 AM

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Tesserax

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Mar 21, 2011 8:42 AM in response to Fiorino

Hello Fiorino. Welcome to the Apple Discussions!

Desktop PC is ethernet wired to Airport and has internet access, but does not seem to be recognized as part of the network.

Please check out the following iFelix article to see if it can help: Sharing files between a Windows XP PC and a Mac running OS 10.4.x. Although it was written for sharing with a Mac running Tiger, it still applies for by Leopard and Snow Leopard.

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Fiorino Author

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Mar 21, 2011 10:28 AM in response to Tesserax

Will take a look. Thanks!

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Fiorino Author

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Mar 24, 2011 9:47 AM in response to Fiorino

Turned out to be a problem with Bonjour as well as some firewall settings. For Home Sharing, two specific ports are needed (3689 and 5353) and a corrupt file in Bonjour made the utility unable to contact the Airport. A re-install of Bonjour solved the latter problem, and then some tweaking of the firewall solved the former. (I had turned off the firewall while trying to solve the issue and nothing improved, because of the Bonjour issue, so I had ruled that out as a problem!).

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