qwerty2007
10-14-2007, 11:22 AM
First, thank you in advance for any and all help you can give... this has been bugging me for a while.
Next, I'm at college, where I do not have access to the school's main connection/router/whateve r they do that lets studetns get online.
Now for the troubles... my room has two ethernet ports (one for me and one for my roommate). My roommate has a computer and I have two. So I bought a cheap d-link (ebr-2310) wired router (we are not permitted to install our own wireless on campus). It works fine. I can get on the internet and everything. The problem is that I cannot access any network drives.
I can see my other computer on the network, but none of the computers on the schools network. This is important because some of my professors have us save our papers, research, etc in a specific drive on the network. So in those cases, I have to switch plugs and it can get kind of annoying.
I read somewhere that I need to turn my router into a switch. Is that true? How do I do that?
Please and thank you!
Next, I'm at college, where I do not have access to the school's main connection/router/whateve r they do that lets studetns get online.
Now for the troubles... my room has two ethernet ports (one for me and one for my roommate). My roommate has a computer and I have two. So I bought a cheap d-link (ebr-2310) wired router (we are not permitted to install our own wireless on campus). It works fine. I can get on the internet and everything. The problem is that I cannot access any network drives.
I can see my other computer on the network, but none of the computers on the schools network. This is important because some of my professors have us save our papers, research, etc in a specific drive on the network. So in those cases, I have to switch plugs and it can get kind of annoying.
I read somewhere that I need to turn my router into a switch. Is that true? How do I do that?
Please and thank you!