Strange Network Connection behaviour

[Guest]

I am connecting a Laptop to a home network. I have done this for years,
literally. Earlier this week, something changed somehow, and I am unsure of
what or how, but here is the symptom:

File shares from a workgroup computer are available to my Laptop if I use
the laptop's integrated wireless network adapter, but if I try to plug into
the same hub (WAP/hub) using a network cable and the 10/100 NIC on the
Laptop, suddenly the workgroup is no longer visible! I can however use the
"net use..." workaround to see the share, and I can ping the IP of the target
workgroup computer. I just can't browse to it, or bring it up via mapped
drives.

Why could I connect using on NIC and not the other?

My laptop is a Toshiba Satellite with XP sp1.

 

[Chuck]

I am connecting a Laptop to a home network. I have done this for years,
literally. Earlier this week, something changed somehow, and I am unsure of
what or how, but here is the symptom:

File shares from a workgroup computer are available to my Laptop if I use
the laptop's integrated wireless network adapter, but if I try to plug into
the same hub (WAP/hub) using a network cable and the 10/100 NIC on the
Laptop, suddenly the workgroup is no longer visible! I can however use the
"net use..." workaround to see the share, and I can ping the IP of the target
workgroup computer. I just can't browse to it, or bring it up via mapped
drives.

Why could I connect using on NIC and not the other?

My laptop is a Toshiba Satellite with XP sp1.

Junior,

Windows Networking is a lot of fun, with many possibilities for problems.
Transient visibility / accessibility problems, when you switch back and forth
between 2 different network connections, are not rare. There are several
possible causes for problems.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/10/irregularities-in-workgroup-visibility.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/10/irregularities-in-workgroup-visibility.html

If no help from the above, provide "browstat status" and "ipconfig /all" from
the problem computer (twice, with each connection in turn in use) and for the
other computer, so we can diagnose the problem. Read this article, and linked
articles, and follow instructions precisely:
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/troubleshooting-network-neighborhood.html#AskingForHelp>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/troubleshooting-network-neighborhood.html#AskingForHelp

All information may be useful, so omit or munge nothing. Please read these
additional articles:
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/06/privacy-statement.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/06/privacy-statement.html
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/08/solving-network-problems-tutorial.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/08/solving-network-problems-tutorial.html

 

[Guest]

Good question, but have not known the answer yet