Do you just get the generic "Windows cannot access \\PROBLEM" when you
try to connect to it? What happens if you ping the problem machine by IP
address and name?
Jamie
On 2012-12-13 8:21 PM, Winterlight wrote:
good idea but turning it off made no difference
At 11:39 AM 12/13/2012, you wrote:
Windows firewall settings. Disable windows firewall and see if that
resolves the issue. If so find the exclusion that fixes it.
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Winterlight
<[email protected]>wrote:
> I have a Thinkpad that connects to my LAN wirelessly on the same
router
> that supports my Work group. It is not the only device that
connects to the
> LAN on wifi. My phone and two other laptops do as well. The other
devices
> are working fine on wifi.
>
> The problem laptop is running Win7 Pro and appears in the network
> listings of all other LAN members. The Thinkpad has shares
enabled. The
> laptop can connect and access the members of the LAN but none of wired
> members of the LAN can connect to the laptop. My LAN is not set up
as a
> home group but as users with password. I am a bit leary of
homegroup. I
> have shares enabled on the laptop and all other settings look
correct. If I
> click on the name of the laptop in Network from another computer it
will
> search but can not find the laptop.
>
> I ran MS network troubleshooter diagnostics on the problem laptop
and it
> came back with = there are two devices performing NAT and only one
device
> should be doing this. But none of the other devices have any
problems so
> whatever the problem is it must reside on this computer. Any ideas?
Thanks.
>
> w
>
>
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