Try checking the properties of your network connection and see if the
network firewall is checked.  The MS firewall protection can block too much
sometimes.




--gary r. tennesen

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----- Original Message -----
From: "m_sayer_" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2004 2:58 PM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] XP Pro computer is no longer on the network


> Is it possible to do a system restore? Just a thought. Maybe worth a try?
>
> Michele Sayer
>
>
> Hello all!
>
> Yesterday, I was doing some work for a client which involved downloading
> some drivers on my main computer and installing them on my laptop.
Download
> went fine, opened up the laptop's network places, and everything that the
> desktop computer shares showed, then disappeared. The desktop dropped off
> the network. The desktop is a Dell with lots of muscle and XP Pro. The
> network is run through a Linksys router which is doing DHCP for the
network.
>
> I can ping the notebook from the desktop, but not the desktop from the
> laptop. In the listing of computers on the network, the laptop shows up in
> it's workgroup computers screen, but the desktop does not. On the desktop,
> nothing shows up in the workgroup computers window. The internet (DSL)
does
> work from the desktop, but, oddly enough, when I first open the browser
> (Firefox 0.9.1), it gets the page correctly and asks to use the dialup
> connection to connect. Simple file sharing is off on all computers on the
> network. I have checked (again and again) the usual suspects and recreated
> the network numerous times from all machines on the network. I've tried
with
> Zone alarm on and off (the IP address range is designated as a trusted
zone
> on all machines). All spyware programs (Adaware and Spybot) are up to
date,
> as is Norton's AV 2004. I've made no hardware or software changes to the
> desktop for a few weeks (OK - I installed Half-Life for summer rerun fun
> <grin>).
>
> This is one of those problems where, I believe, a checkbox got changed,
and
> that all will be well once I find it and change it back (I can dream...).
> Would anyone have any ideas?
>
> Thanks for your time and thought!
>
> Will Stephenson
> Acadia Technologies Inc.
> mailto:[log in to unmask]
>
> There are as many paths to God as there are people to walk them.
>
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> Just to clarify; if you've got a virus, it's not from me!
> Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).
> Version: 6.0.718 / Virus Database: 474 - Release Date: 09/07/2004
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