Thanks for the suggestion Mike. Oddly, this wacky situation wherein my three machines could ping each other, link to the router and connect to the internet, but not see each other's files, righted itself about 10 minutes ago.
I've no idea what caused it to work again, but I'd just patched in a fourth machine that I'm building, and this action seemed to be the catalyst that corrected the problem.
The fourth machine is the last in the line and the RJ45 cable I keep for guest machines was previously hanging loose - maybe the network has to be terminated for it to work?
(Then again it could have been the way I was swearing at it :--))
Ian Porter
Computer Guys Inc.
Arrowtown
New Zealand
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----- Original Message -----
From: Mike McNeil Computer Troubleshooters Queenstown
Subject: Re: [PCSOFT] Network flaky - new virus?
Hi Ian,
One thing you may want to try is to run the XP network setup wizard again.
Perhaps there is something in XP that doesn't allow the network to function
correctly without the wizard being run first.
regards
Mike McNeil
-----Original Message-----
Subject: [PCSOFT] Network flaky - new virus?
My home network consists of 3 pc's, all running XPPro. The Internet
connection is via a broadband router.
Up til recently (date unsure but probably two days back) everything was
normal, with each machine seeing the others, all machines connecting to the
internet, file sharing OK etc etc.
Suddenly, the network has become screwed up. Each machine still connects to
the Internet and each machine can ping the other.
But in Network Places on each machine, there are NO computers visible at
all, not even each computer's own files, so no file sharing is possible.
I've checked and double checked all settings, but everything seems to be
normal. I've turned off Zone Alarm Pro without effect. Every drive is set
for sharing. I've tried with specified IP addresses (the way it was when it
worked) and with Auto-detect.
All I can put it down to is a virus, but if it is, it must be an
undiscovered strain - my virus protection is Nod32 on two machines and AVG
Pro on the third - they're fully up-to-date and report no bugs.
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