Sharing Issues

[Takon Orlani]

Got three PC's on my homegroup, laptop, PC in my living room, and the one in my room. Everythign has worked well as far as streaming and file sharing within the homegroup until this week. Now the PC in my room (the one I store everything on) cannot see the other computers in the homegroup, but the other computers in the homegroup can see it.

The only change I have made was switching my connection to wireless on the PC in my room since my ethernet port died on me (yes I tested the cable)

Help me out, I really liked streaming my TV shoes on my big screen without having to download everything to both computers or use USB drives or other physical media.

Additionally: Until today every computer could see the other, but attempts to access the PC in my room would "time out", when I moved filed FROM my room into the living room/laptop they would only transfer at <1mb/s. As of today the computers can no longer see the one in my room, and vice versa.

[balistic void]

You selected public network and thus it's firewalled. Delete wifi and connect again, select home network.

[Takon Orlani]

You selected public network and thus it's firewalled. Delete wifi and connect again, select home network.

Nope

[balistic void]

Well it's something to do with firewall anyways. Can you ping between machines? Is your router setup to bridge wifi onto the wired lan, or just wifi -> internetz?

[fffuuu]

are all these computers win7? or do you have vista and xp mixed in?

[Takon Orlani]

W7 confirming. It's all worked until this week. I made no changes except for switching to WiFi cause my Ethernet port died but that was weeks ago, this worked after that change.

[Loganbacca]

I had a problem like this up until recently, I could get computers connecting to each other over the network, then a few hours later some could see each other but others couldn't. So I swapped my router over to another one I have and now everything can see each other just fine. Not sure if it's just the router was derp, or it has some retarded firewall settings or something. I can also see and connect to the network attached printer now, which I very rarely could before. Also I wasn't using homegroup due to mixed OS's.

I'd suggest trying another router if you've got one, just to confirm if it's the router, or computer that's the problem.
Also, check what your computers firewall settings are, windows firewall has the right ports open for homegroup/sharing, but other firewalls generally don't.
Have a look at this page: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/wind ... of-Windows
halfway down that page is a list of ports that need to be opened for networking.

[ThonEney]

On an unrelated note for some reason accesing my win7 box from a xp one requires a password no matter which settings i set.

[Mimiru]

Just make a domain !

[EntroX]

Just make a domain !

i hate you

[Hurricane]

I take it your accessing your machines through NETBIOS names primarily and not through IP or (if you have a DNS Server sitting there) DNS based ?

Is your wireless and your wired network in the same IP segment and subnet ?

This sounds like either a firewall issue, or routing.

does your wireless by any odd chance firewall your wireless from accessing the internal (cabled) network ?

just spouting ideas