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Author Topic: Weird network share problem  (Read 2956 times)

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Weird network share problem
« on: December 23, 2008, 03:22:35 PM »
System is running XP64, and cannot access SMB shares.  I can ping the server, but cannot connect and browse, and I can even VNC into the server.  Whether Windows Firewall is up or down changes nothing.  I am posting from the system now, so internet works fine.  All the other systems on the network can connect fine.  It's just the actual accessing of the shares that I can't do, from this one machine.

What makes it even weirder... if I fire up a virtual machine on the failing system, that XP system can browse the network just fine.  So it has to be some software configuration thing that got changed somehow.
What the hell?
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Re: Weird network share problem
« Reply #1 on: December 23, 2008, 03:47:08 PM »
Did you try the upside down monitor degauss hack?
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Re: Weird network share problem
« Reply #2 on: December 23, 2008, 04:07:46 PM »
That could be the problem.  My LCD doesn't have a degauss button.  SHOULD I TAKE IT BACK???
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Re: Weird network share problem
« Reply #3 on: December 23, 2008, 04:58:57 PM »
I think NewEgg or one of those places has after-market degauss buttons.
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Re: Weird network share problem
« Reply #4 on: December 23, 2008, 05:02:50 PM »
Are the other machines XP64?
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Re: Weird network share problem
« Reply #5 on: December 23, 2008, 06:50:14 PM »
Debian/Ubuntu linux and an XBOX.
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