So today I (rather stupidly) tried adding a switch between two of my machines and my LInksys router. Thisled to complete disaster, from Vista's inability to browse other PCs through Network folder and ultimately having to reconfigure my router so the PCs can connect to the Internet
So now all PCs can connect to the Internet, but my main power workstation, Vista Business, can RDP and connect to 3 other XP machines on the local network by IP only, and I cannot connect using Hostname of the machines, neither do these machines appear in Network folder as they have for the past month since using this Linksys router.
net view \\machinename failes with the following error: "System 53 has occurred. The network path was not found." The XP machines cannot connect to this box either via RDP or file sharing by hostname either, only by IP address.
I installed the Link-Layer Topoligy Discovery Responder on one of the XP machines, and the other did not require it because it already was included in the SP that is installed on it.
So now from my main Vista workstation, I cannot RDP to other workstations or create file shares by anything other than IP address which is unacceptable because Hostnames were working just fine for the last month.
I even tried enabling NetBios over TCPIP on all the machines, and restarted them, to no avail.
None of my PCs are running Norton or any other Anti Virus so that is not the cause of the problem.
Also I have disabled the PC Firewall during troubleshooting to see if Firewall interfered with NetBios but that doesn't get me very far either.
I'm desparate to restore this capability to my Vista workstation as it's my primary workstation and it kills my productivity without having friendly hostnames or Network browsing enabled. Please help!
And yes, all are in the HOME workgroup, all have the same subnet and share the same range of IP addresses E.g. 192.168.1.x
