First post, by ratfink
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I have my pc's on a network at home, usually meaning:
athlon(1) running 98
phenom(1) running xp
phenom(2) running 7
386 running wfwg3.11
p4(1) running 2000
p4(2) running 98se
laptop running xp
Until recently, all boxes could see each other except the 386 and the 7 box.
The 386 I eventually got access to from one of the others, turned out it was an 802.2/802.3 issue. More importantly my 7 box is in effect my backup and file server.
So, today I replace p4(2) with athlon(2) running 98se.
I have these problems:
1. Although everything seems to have web access, the 7 box can see no other boxes at all. I don't recall changing anything...
2. Athlon(1) can see the laptop, and can "find" phenom(1). It can "find" the 7 box but as usual no password seems to work. So maybe that's as before - but why can it see one xp box but not the other?
3. Athlon(2), though freshly installed and with a working web, can see no other boxes, cannot be see by them, and cannot share folders [right-click etc] even though file sharing is installed. It has no firewall either.
Accessing my router shows all these boxes have ip addresses [of course, how else can they access the web].
Could anyone provide some pointers here please?
I have tried 7's troubleshooters, I have reinstalled all networking components on athlon(2) a couple of times, and I have done some googling but it looked like it wasn't going to help [or at least, not without spending hours trying to sort wheat from chaff]. I have also taken off password protection on home connections for the 7 box and tried it with and without homegroup.
