Network problems

[Bob]

I have several computers on a network, one is wireless. I have been
happy as a clam sharing files among all computers when I got a virus on
my XP machine. I cleaned and restored and pretty much got back where I
was and even the network was working fine.

Well, the next day the XP computer lost the network. It still accesses
the Internet fine (I'm using it now) but it can't see the others. The
two I am concerned with are running Win 2000. They see each other and
the Internet just fine but can't see this one, nor can this one see them.

I tried all the network schemes I can think of. Even had a computer
guru look at it and give up. It would really be nice to have all these
computers playing together again.

Any ideas? Need more info?

Bob

 

[Steve Winograd]

I have several computers on a network, one is wireless. I have been
happy as a clam sharing files among all computers when I got a virus on
my XP machine. I cleaned and restored and pretty much got back where I
was and even the network was working fine.

Well, the next day the XP computer lost the network. It still accesses
the Internet fine (I'm using it now) but it can't see the others. The
two I am concerned with are running Win 2000. They see each other and
the Internet just fine but can't see this one, nor can this one see them.

I tried all the network schemes I can think of. Even had a computer
guru look at it and give up. It would really be nice to have all these
computers playing together again.

Any ideas? Need more info?

Bob

The virus cleanup might have removed something that had hooked into
the TCP/IP stack or the LSP chain. Try these steps to repair them:

1. At a command prompt, enter this line, press Enter, then reboot:

netsh winsock reset

2. Download, install, and run Winsock XP Fix from:

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/winsockxpfix.html
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[Bob]

The virus cleanup might have removed something that had hooked into
the TCP/IP stack or the LSP chain. Try these steps to repair them:

1. At a command prompt, enter this line, press Enter, then reboot:

netsh winsock reset

2. Download, install, and run Winsock XP Fix from:

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/winsockxpfix.html

Thanks for the suggestion, Steve. Actually what I did was go through
the restore process with some restore discs. But notice that I said the
system worked fine after restoration. The network problem occurred a
day or so later.

Regardless, I did as you suggested but no improvement noted.

Bob