Hi all,

I have a small office network running two XP Pro machines and 1 SBS2003 server. We've just moved in to temporary office space for a week or two before getting our new place.

At our temp office we're not able to connect to the internet via ethernet but are able to hop on the wireless network, which works fine. (The server now doesnt have internet, which isnt a huge problem in the short term). The server has 1 NIC which is connected to the switch... ethernet cables then run from the switch to each PC.

The problem we have is this... if the ethernet cable is plugged into the PCs, we can access everything from the server but we cannot use the internet (even though we're connected to the wireless network). When the ethernet cable is removed from the PCs, we're instantly able to use the internet again (but of course, no server).

How do get around this? Is there a way I can access the internet wirelessly and the server via ethernet concurrently?

Many thanks in advance,

Paul

You need to adjust the metric of the wireless connection to be higher than that of the wired network. Under advanced TCPIP properties give the wireless network a metric of "1" and the wired a metric of "2" and see what happens.

You need to adjust the metric of the wireless connection to be higher than that of the wired network. Under advanced TCPIP properties give the wireless network a metric of "1" and the wired a metric of "2" and see what happens.

You're a star. That worked perfectly.

Many thanks!

Thats ok , no problem

You may want to switch this back, however, once you're back on your permanent (wired) network--otherwise you may experience similar issues if your folks start connecting to "rogue" wireless networks.