I have a Gb wired and n wifi network. Router, switches, adaptors are
all quality Gb components. All cabling is Monoprice manufactured
CAT6. The LAN members = PC clients, 2 XBOXs, printers and Wifi
devices, all work very well and very quick. All the PCs are running
Win7 pro and ultimate and Win8 PRO. My two main PCs are new builds
of Windows 7 Ultimate and Windows 8 PRO and I haven't screwed around
with networking at all.
My WD LIVE Plus devices... I have three.... and my boot up Acronis
versions 2010 and 2013 USB recovery drive can not see any workgroup
network file share except for ... but not always.... my VMWARE 9
virtual Win2000 which I always run on my primary Win7 Pro computer
in order to run a very old version of chessmaster. These devices do
not see my primary workgroup at all.... but it does see the
workgroup for the Win2000 machine and the machine itself.
I have plugged all devices into the same Netgear Gb switch and when
that didn't work I tried another Netgear Gb switch with the same
result. It can not be the hardware. The devices originally worked but
not now.. something has changed in windows 7 and 8. It is not a bad
device because none of the WD live plus media player can access the
LAN nor does Acronis 2010 2013 at the DOS boot.
WD has been no help... and I am not the only one with this problem.
Their community forum has others with the same issue. Do you think
this is just something MS has done through an update that has
essentially blocked out this kind of network access. Has anyone seen
this kind of problem before?
