Vista box is "isolated"

[yadda]

T1 is a Vista machine that the is isolated on my home network in that no
other PCs (2 XP, 1 Vista) on my network can reach him except T1 can reach the
Windows shares on *all* of the other PCs.

T1 has no problems browsing the Internet.

I cannot ping T1 from the other PCs. Windows firewall is disabled on T1. I
have disabled IP6 and the link layer discoveries butthat did no good.

I have went over the file sharing doc at
http://windowshelp.microsoft.c...-5c60e6ae86151033.mspx and I definitely have a couple of shares setup.

 

[RebateMonger]

Check the System Event Log for any networking errors.
Double check that none of the PCs have the same system Name or IP address, and that a ping request to this PC from another PC results in a ping to the correct IP address.

 

[yadda]

OK...here is the deal after changing everything I could I have found the problem but the question is why????

T1 is using a wireless internal NIC (Linksys Wireless-G) and I swapped this for a USB based Linksys Wireless NIC. Still nothing....

Mind you Internet browsing still works just no "Windows" type internal network sharing.

Solution: I enabled the internal NIC and it all works now. What the hell??? My wireless settings possibly are messed up but where. This is only a temp. solution because this PC needs to go back to a wireless setup.

Ideas?????

 

[Fardringle]

Are you sure you configured the Windows Firewall properly for the wireless connection? Settings for one connection do not carry over to other connections, so if you only configured the wired connection properly that would explain why it works and the wireless do not.

Check the stuff RebateMonger listed as well. 🙂

 

[yadda]

Yes the Windows firewall is disabled for the wireless connection.

I cannot ping this machine using netbios name or IP when the wireless nic is enabled from any machine. The wireless router has handed out a valid ip address. Definitely no IP or name conflicts.

This is killing me....🙁