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Help for solving a XP home lan mystery
Shades:
By the way, does your new PC have one or two network adapters (for example: wifi and cable)?
MerleOne:
Thanks for the directions. I found something quite interesting this afternoon, which changes the way I am looking at this problem. Now I am almost convinced I did something to this computer configuration that led to that problem.
But before that, I found quite a nice workaround that I'd like to mention here : I downloaded 'netscanner' here : http://www.softperfect.com/products/networkscanner/.
I select 192.168.1.0 and -.255 as start and end address, I launch this (on the Samsung NC10) and I get within a few instants all connected machines and also every available windows shared folders, including those who are hidden with a $ at the end. I can then very easily mount the required resources.
Getting back to what I mentioned above : since I got this machine, I installed FD-ISR (I got the updated version thanks to leapfrog software, having bought the full version some years ago from HorizonDataSys). I have kept a config almost identical to the machine as I unboxed it, and I have my current system, plus some other intermediate configs.
I happened to boot this old config, and the 'net view' command started to work immediately. I started again with the main config, and guess what, net view returns the error message. Back to the old config : it works.
Now I "just" have to compare configs to spot the difference, but this will take quite some time. I think I have activated (don't remember how) UPnP management, my TCP/IP config also mentions some SUE NDIS protocol (Samsung's) , but there are many other diff. : the antivirus, many things. I have to check...
The worst case scenario would be to reinstall everything from this config, which can be done, but I may encounter again the problem, and I'd like to identify how I did it, so I can avoid the same mistake again.
MerleOne:
By the way, does your new PC have one or two network adapters (for example: wifi and cable)?
-Shades (May 03, 2009, 01:52 PM)
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Yes. I use Wifi and have desactivated the ethernet connection.
Shades:
Somewhat good news then ;)
UPnP can be disabled in the service management screen from Windows. Don't worry about disabling this service, it is not really required.
Sorry, I had to use Google to find out about the FD-ISR software. Myself I use regedit to export my complete registry as txt file before I install any piece of software. After installing I create a new backup and use a Difff program like WinMerge (open source) or Beyond Compare 3 (worth every penny you have to pay for it) to check for differences.
Works relatively fast and does not have to cost you any money.
How did you disable the network card, if I may so boldly ask? With more than one network card you have a multi-homed PC and it is possible that your PC requests for an updated list through the normal network card (depending on the way the card is disabled of course).
MerleOne:
Somewhat good news then ;)
UPnP can be disabled in the service management screen from Windows. Don't worry about disabling this service, it is not really required.
Sorry, I had to use Google to find out about the FD-ISR software. Myself I use regedit to export my complete registry as txt file before I install any piece of software. After installing I create a new backup and use a Difff program like WinMerge (open source) or Beyond Compare 3 (worth every penny you have to pay for it) to check for differences.
Works relatively fast and does not have to cost you any money.
How did you disable the network card, if I may so boldly ask? With more than one network card you have a multi-homed PC and it is possible that your PC requests for an updated list through the normal network card (depending on the way the card is disabled of course).
-Shades (May 03, 2009, 06:01 PM)
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Actually, I use System Explorer 1.5 (http://systemexplorer.mistergroup.org/) to compare configuration (file and / or registry) before/after an installation, whenever I do it, using its "snapshot" mechanism. I have done a snapshot while in one config, another while in the other one, but there are too many differences to allow me to quickly where it may come from.
However it tells me the problam should be solved by just changing the Samsung config.
How I disabled the ethernet connection : I just opened connections from the start menu, right-clicked on the ethernet one and chose 'disable', so that I don't get the non connected icon i systray. BTW, I now understand what people call "multi-homed".
Regarding FD-ISR, it's incredibly powerful but I find it somewhat difficult to understand all its mechanisms. Since I had lots of free HDD, it was a good opportunity to try it : I had a non used license, changing config is just a matter of reboot, it doesn't slow down the machine in any way and is rock solid.
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