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Jobistober · 13-August-07, 09:13 PM

For the last couple years, I've owned a Linksys WRT54G wireless router. And for the last 4 months I've used the same router as a means of networking my main rig with my gaming server. I use Remote Desktop to administrate the server, and when I normally log onto the server, I use its UNC name "Blackbox" to connect to it rather than its IP addy. I also used the UNC name to connect to network resources between computers, i.e. "\\blackbox\blahblah\".

Today, I tried upgrading my router firmware to one of the DDwrt sources, which was stupid anyway because I've tried dozens of times to upgrade the thing and it's never worked in the past, even with official Linksys .bin files. So anyway, I tried upgrading the firmware, only to have it tell me "Upgrade are failed!". So I think no big deal, and go about my business.

So then, I try remote desktoping my server the way I always have, only for it to tell me that the computer couldn't be found. But I try connecting with the IP of the server, and that worked! I also tried accessing the server with the UNC paths "\\blackbox", but that wouldn't work either. So I then tried "\\192.168.1.103" (the IP it has on the router) and that worked like a charm. It seemed as though the UNC naming system wasn't working. To test it out for sure, I tried adding a network resource on my main rig, using the UNC address "\\192.168.1.103\downloads" which is a folder I keep a bunch of files in on the server. My main rig added the network folder alright, but the folder was listed in My Network Places under "The Internet", and not "Local Network". My router thinks my local network is the internet!!!

Any ideas on what happened?

13-August-07, 09:13 PM	#1 (permalink)
Jobistober P'Hoe'toshop Fanatic Join Date: May 2005 Location: Colorado Posts: 2,634	I hate my Linksys WRT54G! For the last couple years, I've owned a Linksys WRT54G wireless router. And for the last 4 months I've used the same router as a means of networking my main rig with my gaming server. I use Remote Desktop to administrate the server, and when I normally log onto the server, I use its UNC name "Blackbox" to connect to it rather than its IP addy. I also used the UNC name to connect to network resources between computers, i.e. "\\blackbox\blahblah\". Today, I tried upgrading my router firmware to one of the DDwrt sources, which was stupid anyway because I've tried dozens of times to upgrade the thing and it's never worked in the past, even with official Linksys .bin files. So anyway, I tried upgrading the firmware, only to have it tell me "Upgrade are failed!". So I think no big deal, and go about my business. So then, I try remote desktoping my server the way I always have, only for it to tell me that the computer couldn't be found. But I try connecting with the IP of the server, and that worked! I also tried accessing the server with the UNC paths "\\blackbox", but that wouldn't work either. So I then tried "\\192.168.1.103" (the IP it has on the router) and that worked like a charm. It seemed as though the UNC naming system wasn't working. To test it out for sure, I tried adding a network resource on my main rig, using the UNC address "\\192.168.1.103\downloads" which is a folder I keep a bunch of files in on the server. My main rig added the network folder alright, but the folder was listed in My Network Places under "The Internet", and not "Local Network". My router thinks my local network is the internet!!! Any ideas on what happened? __________________