We have an hp tower with windows media edition hardwired to the router, and an HP laptop with XP on wireless. I assume The exact physical topology of the network is not involved with the problem.
Both computers are members of the same workgroup name. When the laptop was introduced, I shared a printer connected to the media edition tower. Printing from the laptop to the printer connected to the tower worked fine for months.
a few weeks ago it suddenly stopped. Nothing from the tower is accessible from the laptop. When I search for computers, the laptop can find the tower by IP only, not by name, and it shows the domain as "unknown." That's the first sign that there's a problem. When I try to open it , I get the message that its inaccessible, I might not have permissions , etc. Normally when I see something like this, I reboot one or both computers . Doesn't help here. It permanently went bad. It doesn't' ask for a login, it just refuses immediately. All firewall software, including windows, was shut down on both machines. The tower can search and find the laptop, by IP. It shows the correct workgroup name immediately. and, I can view the resources on the laptop. I just need it to work in the other direction. Does this sound like an infection, or did windows networking just go bad on the tower? And what's the next step ? I did a full scan with Norton's and found nothing. It's obviously a high level problem, TCP is fine, or it wouldn't work from the tower backwards to the laptop.
I brought in another laptop, and the same problem exists: the tower is now inaccesible to anything.
Both computers are members of the same workgroup name. When the laptop was introduced, I shared a printer connected to the media edition tower. Printing from the laptop to the printer connected to the tower worked fine for months.
a few weeks ago it suddenly stopped. Nothing from the tower is accessible from the laptop. When I search for computers, the laptop can find the tower by IP only, not by name, and it shows the domain as "unknown." That's the first sign that there's a problem. When I try to open it , I get the message that its inaccessible, I might not have permissions , etc. Normally when I see something like this, I reboot one or both computers . Doesn't help here. It permanently went bad. It doesn't' ask for a login, it just refuses immediately. All firewall software, including windows, was shut down on both machines. The tower can search and find the laptop, by IP. It shows the correct workgroup name immediately. and, I can view the resources on the laptop. I just need it to work in the other direction. Does this sound like an infection, or did windows networking just go bad on the tower? And what's the next step ? I did a full scan with Norton's and found nothing. It's obviously a high level problem, TCP is fine, or it wouldn't work from the tower backwards to the laptop.
I brought in another laptop, and the same problem exists: the tower is now inaccesible to anything.
