E3000 support file & print sharing

I recently bought an E3000 to replace my failed WRT54G v5. With the E3000 I can't get my shared Windows folders to be accessed from my other PCs. I called telephone support and they informed me that the E3000 doesn't support file & printer sharing. WTH? Is this true? If so, I'm going to return the E3000 and get my money back. But I never heard of a router not supporting file & printer sharing. My WRT54G handled it just fine.

There may be more than cause for this problem but I was able to fix it using some suggestions from others.
The following assumes your network shares work OK until the E3000 is connected. For example, you may replace an older router with the E3000 (and sharing worked OK with the older browser) or you add the E3000 to an existing network where sharing was working OK.
The E3000 can make an attached USB stick or HD accessible on the network as a shared device. If you don't need this, change the workgroup name (under Storage -> Administration) to something that is NOT the same as the workgroup name on your computers. How about "E3000Storage" or something like that?
You may need to restart one of the computers on your network after you change the setting in the router. After the restart, you should be able to use your network shares.
Here is my theory of the problem. Computers in a peer-to-peer network must decide with computer acts as the master for network requests (called the Master Browser). There must be one and only one Master Browser for each workgroup. Apparently the E3000 either becomes the one Master Browser and then malfunctions or it interferes with the computer that is the Master Browser. By putting computers in one workgroup and the E3000 in another workgroup, the interference is avoided.

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1. Double click on the ThinkVantage Access Connections applet in the
notification area.
2. Click on the MANAGE button on the toolbar
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4. Click on the ADDITIONAL SETTINGS tab
5. Next to "Network Security", click the SETTINGS button
6. The first option in Security Settings is "Disable file and printer
sharing". UNCHECK this box. Click OK for 3 levels of dialog boxes, then
close Access Connections
Although these directions are specific to ThinkPad notebooks, the same
principle may apply for other manufacturers' connection managers.
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Hello There,
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hello can anyone help me?
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Yes, there is at least one other thread on this but it looked a bit stale.
Last Friday I replaced my BEFSR41 router and WRT54G wireless access point (which had gone brick on me) with an E3000.The E3000 is configured as a DHCP server at 192.168.168.65 with a scope of 66-115. The only other non-default setting is that I opened up the custom port for my slingbox.
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I pinged the various computers, and was able to do so by their IP addresses, but not by their computer names (that worked with the old router). On a hunch, I tried creating a mapped drive, and that also worked when I used the IP address, but not when I used the computer name.
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Ok, another update and possibly some clues.
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Hello
I posted this question on the Microsoft Partner Windows 7 forum and the support person told me that I should post it here.
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You will also need to start by joining the machines to the domain. That will be very difficult unless all have PowerShell and are configured for WinRM.
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Here is how to add roles and features with PowerShell:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831809.aspx
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Fix for WRT54G file and printer sharing

I have two computers, both connected via wireless. They were connected with a 2 year old Linksys router, that was working great, but got destroyed in a move.
I purchased a new linksys WRT54G router.
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