I have a computer that wont allow anyone to access it. It can access all
other computers and the internet and shared NAS devices, but no other
computer can access it or ping it. it does show up in network computers, but
you cant access it.

The hard drive is shared.
I have allowed user to access and change files.
I have ran the netwrok setup wizard.
IP filtering is off.
Windows firewall is off.

Any ideas as to what I need to do so it can be access by other computers?

Do you have 3rd party security software? Or try this command on a remote
computer: net view \\vistaipaddress. Post back with the result.

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"jcrocco" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I have a computer that wont allow anyone to access it. It can access all
> other computers and the internet and shared NAS devices, but no other
> computer can access it or ping it. it does show up in network computers,
> but
> you cant access it.
>
> The hard drive is shared.
> I have allowed user to access and change files.
> I have ran the netwrok setup wizard.
> IP filtering is off.
> Windows firewall is off.
>
> Any ideas as to what I need to do so it can be access by other computers?

Not sure of protocols -newbie -but I think I'm doing it right. I am
having exactly the same problem with one of my PC's, (xp pro). It is an
old computer, but it contains things I don't want to lose. I have saved
images of the computer, (which might contain the source of the
problem?), uninstalled, reformatted, and reinstalled the OS. Then I
reloaded my disk image, (image for DOS), but I still show "network
places" for a now deleted partition. I can access MShome, and see my
exact computer, (the one I am using right now), and it shows up as
"main". I can open "main" from there to show the supposed shared files,
some of which are references to long deleted partitions, but it will not
open even its own files from there. I am, however, able to access any
other computer on the LAN, (3 more), and download or modify files at
will. It used to work, have tried shutting off firewals, disabling
virus protection, etc. Am able to ping all other computers, but nobody
can access "main's" files.

I am tempted to reimage the hard drives and do a low-level format to
clean them thoroughly, and then reload the disk image. But mightn't
that just reintroduce the problem again.

Any help would be greatly appreciated as I have been messing with this
computer for months.

Thanks,

Jerry I.

Robert L. (MS-MVP) wrote:
> Do you have 3rd party security software? Or try this command on a remote
> computer: net view \\vistaipaddress. Post back with the result.
>

I had a very similar problem. It is mostly solved now involving just
one more registry fix, I think. What had happened was that for reasons
which I won't go into, I was forced to restore the computer from an
image. In my researches, it turned out that many image programs don't
restore the LAN links. I did the usual ipconfig /flushDNS and /remove
and /restore, and then used the description in
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/177078 to rebuild the irpstacksize in
the registry. I recovered all the links, but now have to finish getting
rid of no longer existant partitions. (It is a long and painful story,
but I had to keep and rebuild my computer on the fly as it has ten years
of hard work buried in its crevaces.

Good luck and let me know if this is meaningful.

Jerry

jcrocco wrote:
> I have a computer that wont allow anyone to access it. It can access all
> other computers and the internet and shared NAS devices, but no other
> computer can access it or ping it. it does show up in network computers, but
> you cant access it.
>
> The hard drive is shared.
> I have allowed user to access and change files.
> I have ran the netwrok setup wizard.
> IP filtering is off.
> Windows firewall is off.
>
> Any ideas as to what I need to do so it can be access by other computers?