please help networking noob!

footman · 12 Mar 2006 at 11:33

Hi
I share my business premises with an optical practice. We are close friends and I offered to share my broadband connection with them. I have done this by adding a wireless access point to my wired router and a USB dongle to one of their pcs (Win 2000 prof)
There is no problem in their web access, browsing is fine on the PC the USB dongle is installed. However they are unable to send/receive email using Outlook Express and their Tiscali account, there is simply an unknown error message and its baffling me.
They already have a LAN set up connecting their own 2 pcs together for file sharing. Could this be interfering with the email access on the wireless LAN?

thanks for looking

Laurence

footman · 12 Mar 2006 at 12:48

my own connection is BT ADSL with Nildram.

footman · 12 Mar 2006 at 15:49

Thats what I dont understand. Surely if the correct POP and SMTP settings are used toether with username and password it shouldnt matter what connection is used.

footman · 12 Mar 2006 at 16:28

The dial up has been deleted so that should be out of the way. The SMTP issue will be looked into....cheers.

footman · 12 Mar 2006 at 20:44

I suppose the easiest thing to do would be to restore the Tiscali dial up and use that for emails