Network Problems

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Hello...

Got a new laptop with Vista Home Premium a few
days ago.

Our of the box it seemed to recognize my wired
network in my home as soon as I plugged in the
RJ45.

Internet worked fine. Web, FTP, Newsgroup App,
everything.

However, it cannot see nor can it be seen from the
two other machines on in my home (which can see
and share files and printer with each other
without any problems):

-- Win XP Pro machine
-- Win XP Home machine

What's weird, is that the first day or two it
could see and be seen by XP Home - then, I looked
at the network settings of XP Home (in an effort
to try to figure out the problem with the XP Pro
machine...and then the Vista lost contact with the
XP Home.

....AND I DIDN'T CHANGE ANYTHING...just looked at
the settings.

I realize this could be a very complex problem,
but I would appreciate any "things to look at
first" before I get into a lot of difficult
setting changes.

TIA
SS
 
More information:

The XPHome machine has miraculously
gone back to its original state - visible on
Vista.

I installed the LLTD on the
invisible computer (XPPRO).

Went to my Vista machine,
looked at the map - view full map.

All three machines were visible.

Here's what it showed (my
non-graphic best-attempt at drawing it):



VISTA ===----- HUB === GATEWAY === INTERNET
|
|
|
XPPRO ==


The following cannot be placed


XPHOME



When I place the cursor on either
VISTA or XPHOME, the hand appears and I can
access them.

But the XPPRO machine, though visible
on the map, cannot be accessed (and the
cursor remains an arrow).
 
I am having the same problems. One day I could access every pc on the
network. Rebooted one of the external hard drives and bang cant access any
xp computer. I can see them in the map but can't click on a thing. Any
suggestions are welcome.
 
I don't know if this helps, but I had a connection problem when I attached a
new XP Home Premium laptop to my wired network with two cascaded 4-port
routers (with the one connected to the cable modem the only one set to DHCP
server). After I had done a lot of troubleshooting I had determined that my
Windows XP Pro machine had some software problem that was preventing the
computers from seeing each other. I wiped that computer drive and did a clean
install. On reboot, low and behold, all the computers could see each other.

Now today I add a wireless router on the end of my chain so I can run my
laptop wirelessly. When I plugged a cable into the laptop and connected it to
a port, with the WAN port of the wireless router connected to a port on my
second-in-the-row router I had internet access but the Vista machine could
not see the network. The router had configured itself as 192.168.1.1 (which
it would if it was connected to a network that was addressed with
192.168.0.xxx range).

When I rebooted my Vista laptop it connected wirelessly to the network. I
had internet access but could not see the other machines on my network. I
then logged into my wireless router and turned of it's DHCP server setting. I
then cycled the power on the three routers and rebooted my Vista machine.
When Vista came up I could now see my other computers and my printer
connected to my XP pro machine.

I have a cable connected to one of the regular ports of my wireless router
now, not on the WAN port. I think that is key. Rebooting seems to work when
running ipconfig in a cmd prompt does not. I hope this information helps. It
took me a lot of playing around to figure this stuff out. My network is a
peer to peer network with three routers in a row, two wired and one wireless.
Only my first router is a DHCP server. Everything works. I can see, access,
share and print from every machine.

I will never understand why Microsoft never figured out how to make this
stuff easy or transparent.
 
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