I am not a windows user (usually) but my daughter has a new netbook that came with windows 7 32-bit starter version. We access the internet and a home server (linux) through our home network.
Her wireless connection works fine to access the internet and the server files via samba no problem.
I wanted to transfer a large amount of files (50gb) to her netbook from the server so I decided to use the wired (gigabit) connection for speed. Oddly, the server and several other computers on the network that could be "seen" using her wireless adapter disappear when I switched to the wired adapter.
Is this a purposeful crippling of the starter version or should I be looking for some other settings?
On XP you had the "bridge" which always worked well for my purposes but I can't find that either.
Anyone here have any ideas?
Her wireless connection works fine to access the internet and the server files via samba no problem.
I wanted to transfer a large amount of files (50gb) to her netbook from the server so I decided to use the wired (gigabit) connection for speed. Oddly, the server and several other computers on the network that could be "seen" using her wireless adapter disappear when I switched to the wired adapter.
Is this a purposeful crippling of the starter version or should I be looking for some other settings?
On XP you had the "bridge" which always worked well for my purposes but I can't find that either.
Anyone here have any ideas?
