Macs on 'mixed' networks [wired/wireless]: can all of them

[kbeartx]

From SteveJ's Networking post, it is beginning to appear that there is a glitch in mixed networks, and not all the Macs can view the others.  

I'm trying to get a sense of whether this is a widespread experience or isolated to a few.

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Actually, as I was putting the finishing touches on this topic / poll, I decided to re-check my own situation, and I realized that none of the three machines see each other in Browse mode, but if I enter the local IP address of the MDD on either the PB or the PC, I can connect.  And the reason I can't connect to the PB from the MDD is that I donno the PB's IP - in the network pane it only show the Airport info, NOT the IP address!

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[sandbox]

If the computers are on I have no problem:.... see

Mac Help......
Viewing network routing tables and statistics (NETSTAT)

Use Network Utility to examine your computer's network routing tables or view a detailed summary of packet types sent and received using common network protocols.

Packet summaries are provided for TCP, UDP, IP, ICMP, IGMP, IPSEC, IP6, ICMP6, IPSEC6, and PFKEY.
   1    Open Network Utility and click Netstat.
   2    Select the type of information you want to see and click the Netstat button.

For help interpreting the results, or for information about the underlying netstat command and how you can use it to produce other reports, open the Terminal application and type:

man netstat
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ON a PC=>My Computer (or Start)>My network places> View Workgroup Computers

[pendragon]

No problems with an old DP 800/10.4.8 and an (even) older Lombard/10.3.9. Printer sharing even works as designed.

[Mrious_be]

Sorry, I don't have much experience on wireless connections.
I know that sometimes it's a real pain to get them connected to each other (did it on G5's).
But the problem is not the connection (I had it working all the times) but changing files over from one to another without having to run into the permissions constantly.

Once had a 350 Gb drive connected to two G5's as sort of a remote server.
Depending on what mac started up first, had the full connection on the disk and no problems with the permissions of the files on the drive.
The second however always had permission problems, or problems using/opening/copying files to the harddrive from that mac.
The remote drive had two FireWire 800 ports though, so it should be working.

Really irritating.
Not sure how we got to work with it though, I think I set one mac up as a docking station to port over the files to the drive... hmmm

[gunug]

I have a network at work that used an Airport Extreme (8 iBook G4's) a PC laptop and a iMAC G5 that's upstairs from everything else.  It's all good (mostly) but I still have to work out the security gotcha's!  

My little network at home isn't quite there yet but when I'm done I hope to have a nice wired/wireless mix with a G3 as the server (running Linux I hope) and turned on all the time, a Linksys WRT-54G, my G4 (wireless), a PC-wired, and a wireless PC/Linux laptop (maybe the hardest because the Linux that's on it doesn't do the wireless yet).

[giantmike]

No problem here. Machines on the network:
G5 (wired)
MacBook Pro (wireless)
iBook (wired, running linux)
Sometimes a G3 (wired, running OS 9)

All can see each other just fine.

[Parker]

not only will it pick up other Macs
but it'll pick up PC's as well.

Here at school, i can pick up every machine with a user logged on if it's a PC
or all macs powered on.

[rongold]

No problems here with G4 iMac 1 Ghz connected to wireless modem/router via ethernet and a G4 miniMac connected via wireless. Also have IBM laptop connected to router via ethernet cable.