Add an Acer Aspire One (Linpus) to a Windows wireless network
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Add an Acer Aspire One (Linpus) to a Windows wireless network
I had to restore the OS on my kid's AO and though it connects to the internet fine, it's no longer connected to my home network. I tried manually adding the computer's name from a Windows pc but nothing seems to work. I'm pretty sure it was connected before.
Any tips?
I don't understand the situation. If it's connecting to the internet, isn't it going through your home's wireless network?
Be that as it may, perhaps the Aspire One's name isn't what you think it is. If you connect to the router through which the Aspire One connects to the internet and look at the router's connections, what name do you see for the Aspire One?
Hi rockdoctor,
What I mean is it connects to the router and can access the internet but it doesn't show up in the windows workgroup as an accessible device, a mapped drive or a "network place". Normally in XP you run the network wizard and add a machine to the workgroup. I'm not sure how that would be done in the Linpus Lite os.
I did look at the router's list of connected devices, but the Aspire One's name there isn't recognized as valid by Windows.
Last edited by webbrewers; 09-14-2012 at 08:21 AM.
I've never tried looking for a Linux computer on the network before, so I just tried it with Win7, and didn't see the Linux machine. Just a thought - does the Linux computer need to be running samba in order for the Windows computer to be able to see it?
I don't think so - at least it wasn't before I reinstalled the os and it used to be visible as a network location. If I recall it just appeared in the Windows workgroup before and I selected it. I just don't remember if I did something in the Acer to trigger that.
To 'see' the linux machine from windows it needs samba. More importantly it needs the nmb daemon to give windows it's NetBIOS over IP name service requests.
I have no clue how it would be installed/started on linpus.
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