Mark Breen
marklbreen at gmail.com
Sat Jul 3 05:57:19 CDT 2010
Hello Rocky, You have covered a few things that I would look at also, but in the interest in at least including a checklist, I will note the following Check IP Address range is same as rest of house [I suspect it is OK for you] Check the WORKGROUP name is the same [Done] Check any "allow other computers to connect to me" settings [Done as you can connect to other machines] Check, double check and triple check any firewall settings on each machine [Not Mentioned yet] Check the new Vista / Win7 feature of "What kind of network is this" Home / Public / Work etc - No idea what do check for here. Local installed firewalls Windows or McAfee have gotton me a few times. Finally as a word of woe, I have an XP box and after three years, I cannot connect to it, It can connect to my other machines but I cannot connect to it. A real PITA. Grr I hate this type of problem. Sorry that is not much of a help. Mark On 3 July 2010 01:09, Rocky Smolin <rockysmolin at bchacc.com> wrote: > Dear list(s): > > Max is home for the summer. His dell laptop has Windows 7. He has > internet > access but cannot connect to any of the machines on the home network (or > therefore install a network printer which is what led us to this problem to > begin with). > > Clicking on Network displays all of the computers except my Windows XP box > (which I would like his box to see because I have the best printer local to > my WXP box). When he tries to open any of the displayed comps (they're all > shared - I can access any of them from any of my other boxes), he gets a > message "Windows cannot access (name of computer). > > His workgroup name is WORKGROUP - same as all the network boxes. > > Where should I start to figure out why he can't see the other boxes on the > network? > > > > MTIA > > > > Rocky Smolin > > Beach Access Software > > 858-259-4334 > > www.e-z-mrp.com <http://www.e-z-mrp.com/> > > www.bchacc.com <http://www.bchacc.com/> > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > >