Hi, this may or may not help, but recently I had a similar problem and it
turned out that one of my pc's kept changing to the default workgroup called
MSHOME. (not sure why, but a scan seemed to fix it.)
Just thought I'd mention it, as although that was something really stupid,
it caused no end of problems.
Hope this helps.
Michele Sayer

----- Original Message -----
From: "Will Stephenson" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 5:58 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Network failure


> Hello!
>
> I have a client with a two computer network: one is XP Pro and the other
> Win98SE. A Linksys wireless B router is connected to a DSL modem, the XP
> machine is connected by Ethernet to the router and the Win98 machine is
> connected to the network by a Linksys wireless PCI card. Both have up to
> date antivirus (XP has McAfee, the other Norton 2003) and the both have
> firewalls from the same companies.
>
> I set this network up about a month ago with the intention of both
computers
> using the DSL and sharing a couple of folders each with the other
computer.
> All was fine. This week, I was called in to investigate why they were no
> longer able to share these folders as before. Both the computers access
the
> internet with no problems and the XP machine can see and use the folder on
> the Win98 computer as a network share. However, the Win98 machine cannot
see
> the XP shared folder. When I looked at the XP's shared folder's
properties,
> it was pointing to the wrong folder (!?), so I set about to create a new
> share. No dice: the XP computer cannot be found on the network. Both
> computers can see themselves on the network, but cannot see the other. I
> have turned off the firewalls, I have checked to make sure that there are
no
> demands for authentication within the network, I have rerun the "create a
> small business/home network" wizard many times on the XP machine (and
> created a network setup disk for the Win98 computer which won't work
because
> the wireless card works through software which loads after the network
setup
> wizard tries to run, so it can't find a working network card...grr). The
> router information has not changed (though I did disable the DHCP in the
> router and assigned IP addresses to each machine: same result).
>
> I am stuck. The hardware seems to work fine. Am I missing something
simple?
> Is there any road less traveled that might lead to a solution?
>
> Thanks for you time and thoughts!
>
> Best,
>
> 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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