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GHoosdum
16 Apr 2004, 10:06pm
We're on a network of 7 machines right now, and one of them is causing trouble. There is a mix of XP Pro and Home and Windows Me machiness running, and one XP Home machine can view all the other PCs (shared files) and ping them, but the shared files on this machine can't be seen by other machines, and this machine can't be pinged. We've run Home Networking wizard multiple times, made sure all the settings we could find matched correctly, and still... nothing.

Any ideas?
fudgam
16 Apr 2004, 10:50pm
Network places--->View Network Connections---> Right click on lan connection ----->properties----> Advanced tab----> disable the firewall

....Assuming the OS is XP
Crazy Joe
17 Apr 2004, 2:20am
GH says he did that...
fudgam
17 Apr 2004, 2:24am
GH says he did that...
Not specifically, and he had to have missed something.
qparadox
17 Apr 2004, 2:45am
You don't have some wierd subnetting going on do you? Make sure your IP's are bound to subnet masks that make sense (probably want all 255.255.255.0).
Black Hawk
17 Apr 2004, 2:46am
Same workgroup, subnet mask and same IP range?
Crazy Joe
17 Apr 2004, 3:20am
I'm sorry my post might have been misunderstood. GH was standing behind me when I posted that. It was a response not a statement on his post.
GHoosdum
17 Apr 2004, 5:40am
As I asked Joe to post, the firewall was off.

They all had subnet mask 255.255.255.0.

They are on the same workgroup, and in the same IP range, all working with dynamic IP assignments handed out by a wireless router.

I may have missed something, but I have no idea what it is.
qparadox
17 Apr 2004, 7:10am
I was talking to a friend the other day and there's a problem with windows networking and the "master browser" on the network. Every 11 minutes there's an election to see which computer is the master browser and sometimes when switching computers across networks windows computers become confuzed or get into deadlocks in the voting. The fix is to set one computer to be the dictator (permanent master browser). Unfortunately I don't know how to do this on windows but I know how to do it on Samba if you're running a windows box. Try googling it. I've got a final tomorrow morning or else I'd try and find out more. Here's a start:
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/WindowsServ/2003/all/techref/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/WindowsServ/2003/all/techref/en-us/w2k3tr_netbro_how.asp

Only other suggestion is to try a new nic. You never know ...