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A Baffled User
My HP Pavilion a6250t desktop computer running Windows Vista Home Premium
SP1 is attached to an HP Pavilion ze4900 notebook computer running Windows
XP SP3 via a Linksys WRT54G router. The desktop is attched via ethernet
cable to port no. 1 on the router, and the notebook is attached to port no.
2. I have been set up the same way for over a year, and everything has
always been fine.
Last Wednesday, I returned from a two-week absence and, since then, have not
been able to access shared folders via the network either from the notebook
or from the desktop. Sometimes the notebook is visible under Start | Network
from the desktop, but when I click on the link to it, I get the message in
the subject heading above: "Error code: 0x80070035 The network path was not
found.
The IP addresses on both computers are the same except that one ends in 101
and the other ends in 103. I can ping the desktop from the notebook, but
when I try to ping the desktop by name, the ping request can't find it. Both
computers are connected to the Internet via the same gateway. There is no
problem with the Internet connection on either computer.
When I go to Vista's Network and Sharing Center on the desktop and click on
View Full Map, sometimes I can "see" the notebook from the desktop. Today,
however, I get the message "Windows cannot create the network map. Responses
from other devices on the network are delayed or ther is an incomatible
router on the network." The router has not changed.
I have already powered off the router and modem, and rebooted both
computers, multiple times. It makes no difference.
I don't know if this is pertinent or not, but a third laptop computer on the
network, connected only via wireless, shows up on the network when it is
turned on, and the desktop has normal access to its shared folders. It's
only the notebook that's connected to the router via ethernet
cable--unfortunately, the one I most often share files and folders
with--that isn't accessible.
Thanks!
Joan
SP1 is attached to an HP Pavilion ze4900 notebook computer running Windows
XP SP3 via a Linksys WRT54G router. The desktop is attched via ethernet
cable to port no. 1 on the router, and the notebook is attached to port no.
2. I have been set up the same way for over a year, and everything has
always been fine.
Last Wednesday, I returned from a two-week absence and, since then, have not
been able to access shared folders via the network either from the notebook
or from the desktop. Sometimes the notebook is visible under Start | Network
from the desktop, but when I click on the link to it, I get the message in
the subject heading above: "Error code: 0x80070035 The network path was not
found.
The IP addresses on both computers are the same except that one ends in 101
and the other ends in 103. I can ping the desktop from the notebook, but
when I try to ping the desktop by name, the ping request can't find it. Both
computers are connected to the Internet via the same gateway. There is no
problem with the Internet connection on either computer.
When I go to Vista's Network and Sharing Center on the desktop and click on
View Full Map, sometimes I can "see" the notebook from the desktop. Today,
however, I get the message "Windows cannot create the network map. Responses
from other devices on the network are delayed or ther is an incomatible
router on the network." The router has not changed.
I have already powered off the router and modem, and rebooted both
computers, multiple times. It makes no difference.
I don't know if this is pertinent or not, but a third laptop computer on the
network, connected only via wireless, shows up on the network when it is
turned on, and the desktop has normal access to its shared folders. It's
only the notebook that's connected to the router via ethernet
cable--unfortunately, the one I most often share files and folders
with--that isn't accessible.
Thanks!
Joan