Ken Ibold
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A weird problem has cropped up. Scenario: 5 computers at home (YIKES!) linked into a wireless network through a Linksys router, all using XP Home edition. The system worked pretty well until a couple days ago, when suddenly DAD stopped finding 3 of the others through My Network Places, but does still find one.
The other computers find DAD, and can print on the shared printer attached to DAD and the shared computer attached to MOM. DAD does not find the printer attached to MOM. The printer attached to ST is no longer found by any other computer through the network.
Furthermore, when DAD goes to My Network Places -> View Workgroup Computers, an error message appears saying DAD cannot access the network and to contact the system administrator. DAD can, however, access the internet through the router.
I don't know of any software downloads that occurred at the time the problem developed. All computers are "protected" by McAfee and scans come up clean. All have individual Windows firewalls off and the network itself uses a WEP.
And then yesteday, MOM, on location elsewhere, was finding wireless networks at a Ritz Carlton, but defaulted to "work offline" when IE7 was launched. After troubleshooting that a bit, it connected once, but then stopped finding any wireless networks, when earlier there had been 5 or 6. That may just be a wireless card failure, but I thought I'd throw it in as it's another recent brick in the wall.
Can anyone help me sort this out?
The other computers find DAD, and can print on the shared printer attached to DAD and the shared computer attached to MOM. DAD does not find the printer attached to MOM. The printer attached to ST is no longer found by any other computer through the network.
Furthermore, when DAD goes to My Network Places -> View Workgroup Computers, an error message appears saying DAD cannot access the network and to contact the system administrator. DAD can, however, access the internet through the router.
I don't know of any software downloads that occurred at the time the problem developed. All computers are "protected" by McAfee and scans come up clean. All have individual Windows firewalls off and the network itself uses a WEP.
And then yesteday, MOM, on location elsewhere, was finding wireless networks at a Ritz Carlton, but defaulted to "work offline" when IE7 was launched. After troubleshooting that a bit, it connected once, but then stopped finding any wireless networks, when earlier there had been 5 or 6. That may just be a wireless card failure, but I thought I'd throw it in as it's another recent brick in the wall.
Can anyone help me sort this out?
