cmd ipconfig: IPs and encryption and lions (what?) oh my!

[Brown399]

Hey everyone,

So quite recently I moved into a new dorm room and got the process of setting up my little network underway, but ran into problems when trying to access my PC's files on my Macbook (go-> connect to server-> smb:\\ xxx.xxx.xx).

The problem is that unlike the simple networking that i'm used to at home, the university has a larger area to network and has to put in place more network security. The problem with this is that when i go to look up my desktop's IP adress, there are more IPs and more types of IPs then i have ever seen before.

here's my command line after entering IPConfig

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which IP address am i supposed to use? I tried the ipv4 and default gateway, but the ipv6 isn't in a format recognized by the connect to server utility of a mac (encrypted?).

Also, on either (a) a coincidental note, (b) an entirely unrelated note or, (c) an note which holds some correlation to my post, my PC won't recognize my Macbook even though both have network discovery and password protected sharing enabled.. =x

If anyone can help me out that would be great =o

Thanks,
Brown399

[thideras]

134.129.158.21 should work to connect to your Windows system. Does your Mac have access to the internet (etc) and also have an IPv4 address?

If so, they may be filtering the network.

[Brown399]

yeah thats what i thought, but wasnt sure...thought it was entirely possible that i was using the wrong IP adress

[mbentley]

i would say that it is quite likely that they have some sort of firewall blocking the file sharing ports. leaving too many holes in the network could allow for a massive virus infestation as many people don't know that they should set a password on their admin accounts in windows. how exactly are you connecting both machines on the network? are they in the same room? are they using the same network jack? also, it could be they have mac address filtering, a limited number of connections per port, etc

[DaveHCYJ]

When I was in undergrad the way they had our dorms wired was that every port in the room went to a different switch, so that if a single dorm room was hammering the network the traffic would be spread out.

That also meant that you couldn't do some of the typical windows network discovery stuff within your room since all the computers were on different switches. Although you could network with random people throughout the building.

[dark_15]

Are both the Mac and the Windows system on the same subnet? Do you have anti-virus/firewalling software installed on the system?