Hello.. here's my problem.
I have a workgroup setup at my house connected to a Belkin Wired network..
Id say over the past month one of my WinXP pro machines has been dropping off the
network (for lack of a better description). Here is what happens.
The other three computers can see each other, share files, RDP etc.. but none of them
can see the fourth machine. When I go to network places all of the Network places saved
for this forth machine are displaying as unavailable. YET when I go to this forth machine
it can see and communicate with all of the other machines just fine??
I can reslove the issue by going into Network Places, and running the "Setup a Home or Small
Network" wizard.. After running this, things are fine for a while and then it just drops off
again.
I have scanned this machine completely for Spyware and Virus and everything is Kosher, I
also have active Antivirus, and the machines is operating fine otherwise. I also check the running
services and all of the Networking services seems to be functioning correctly.
Any ideas or directions you can point me too?
ASKER
machines.. I even sat down tonight a verified the services settings.
I think I might have found something that could be the cause, and by the name of this
service it sort of sound like it could be the problem. I just do not know enough about
it to be able to tell.
Service Name:
"Routing and Remote Access"
But the description makes me think maybe not:
"Offers routing services to businesses in local area and wide area network environments."
Dependencies made me think this definitely could cause problems with name resolution on
the network: NetBIOS Group and RPC
When I saw that it was enabled and started on another one of my machines, I tried to start
it on my machine, but it failed.. Although I checked on my laptop which is one of the 4 properly
running machines, and it was not enabled.. so maybe this is not it.
I can say that it is not simply a name resolution issue, when I ping the machines IP address it
times out, until it go over the the machine and run the Network Setup Wizard.