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Lifer
Last time I installed Windows XP it was fine. Melded fine over TCP/IP with my Dell Digital Audio receiver and my Mac laptop.
Yesterday my XP got hosed because of I think Sun Java (which I installed the day before) so I reformatted and reinstalled. Now it accesses the net fine but it is invisible to the Mac. Furthermore, I can't seem to access my router from the XP box. Works fine from the Mac.
Settings seem correct. All shares I need have been activated and it gets an IP fine from the router (DHCP). Workgroup is simply "workgroup". No special domain.
I can ping it fine from the Mac, yet the thing is invisible. Conversely, the Mac is invisible to the XP box, even though it was seen fine before the format.
I just don't get it. :disgust: I had this happen once with my Win 2000 box although that was after months of use and fiddling. This was a fresh install. The only way I corrected the Win 2000 problem was to reformat, and that's after several days help from you guys.
P.S. I'm running a wireless Mac, but it's running through a separate access point, so the router just thinks it's a normal Ethernet connection. Everything is configured via standard TCP/IP.
Yesterday my XP got hosed because of I think Sun Java (which I installed the day before) so I reformatted and reinstalled. Now it accesses the net fine but it is invisible to the Mac. Furthermore, I can't seem to access my router from the XP box. Works fine from the Mac.
Settings seem correct. All shares I need have been activated and it gets an IP fine from the router (DHCP). Workgroup is simply "workgroup". No special domain.
I can ping it fine from the Mac, yet the thing is invisible. Conversely, the Mac is invisible to the XP box, even though it was seen fine before the format.
I just don't get it. :disgust: I had this happen once with my Win 2000 box although that was after months of use and fiddling. This was a fresh install. The only way I corrected the Win 2000 problem was to reformat, and that's after several days help from you guys.
P.S. I'm running a wireless Mac, but it's running through a separate access point, so the router just thinks it's a normal Ethernet connection. Everything is configured via standard TCP/IP.
