Topic: Adding local network privileges to other networks

[Agent86]

Under SME server manager for local networks there is a place to add additional networks to the list

I believe I understand this but would like confirmation please.

Basically I want the verizon wireless computers which are in the 192.168.1 scheme to be able to access the local computers that are inside of the SME gateway/server and have some shares setup.

Is this one of the purposes of adding additional networks ?
And in the section of server manager is also states: "Router" should be the IP address of the router on your local network via which the additional network is reached.
However, I'm not sure this applies to the Verizon Router does it ?
In my case I believe the router address will be that of my SME gateway/server since it's acting as the router right ? And not talking about the verizon router ?

Verizon wireless router > SME gateways/server > local network computers

Please advise

[johnp]

Maybe, without any idea of how your network is currently setup and how the wireless is connected to it, it's just a guessing game. Please provide some additional information.

I'm going to take a guess, the wireless clients are handled by your gateway/router, and the reside on the outside nic. If this is the case, no that setting will not help.

[mmccarn]

Creating a "Local Network" in server-manager does two basic things:
1) Creates a routing table entry for the network (traffic for a.b.c.x should be sent to w.x.y.z)
2) Treats the computers on the new network as being "local" for purposes of firewall and application access.

This has a couple possibly unexpected implications:
- You can create a "local network" that is not actually local -- just specify your default gateway as the gateway.  Note that traffic from this non-local "local network" will not be encrypted unless you enforce encryption at some other level.

- You can significantly decrease the security of your system by making the whole world "local" (network: 0.0.0.0, mask:0.0.0.0, gateway: <your default gateway>).

[johnp]

Sorry it was dark and late when I first read the post. Your best option to have wireless clients on the local lan would be to buy an inexpensive wireless router and connect to your lan.

On the router you would want to make sure it has an ip address which is part of your lan network, and turn off any dhcp. Now it becomes basically an access point and you can connect your network to it via one of it's lan ports.

You could then run 2 wireless, one for trusted and perhaps one for the not so trusted.