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530711 2007-03-06 21:25:00 Help! Please! My wired LAN of 3 machines (2 x W2k 1 X XP) came to a halt. I've fiddled with everything I can find to re-establish communications. Now, on the network, Only printers and scheduled tasks show for each machine. Drives are all set to "share", but no machine on the network can see any of them - even drives on the same machine. Can some one offer a solution before I tear the remaining hair (one left) from my head? Desparately Eric ericbbh (11965)
530712 2007-03-06 21:33:00 You're not sharing the whole hdd on each are you?

Any firewalls installed on any of them?

And I take it you're using an ethernet hub

I would check the workgroup names and the ips under the LAN/properties/TCP/IP on each too.

And if theyre on the net, what are u on? dialup or adsl or other?
Speedy Gonzales (78)
530713 2007-03-06 21:44:00 If you can see the separate pc's and there printers, you should be able to see shares on each machine...so, our there any shares after you have fiddled? SolMiester (139)
530714 2007-03-07 00:56:00 Well, you could boast that the network is secure. :D



Turn off one of the computers (perhaps the XP one, because it's different). See if you can get two to communicate.

If you use DHCP, turn it off and assign fixed IP addresses. (The thought occurs that if you do use DHCP, the order of powering up computers might make a difference).
Graham L (2)
530715 2007-03-07 01:18:00 You said drive are set to share, does that mean sharing is enabled within the operating system (which I presume) or that you have SHARED a folder. There is a difference! SolMiester (139)
530716 2007-03-11 05:00:00 Thanks for all your responses. It turns out that although the drives were checked for sharing, I had to "unshare them" and then mark them for sharing again. I suppose it makes sense to BG, but not much to me. I still don't know why ti all wen down in the first place either. But hey! The sun's shining and the network's sharing! ericbbh (11965)
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