- Dec 11, 2014
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Situation: a small home network behind a NAT firewall from the internet,
with a variety of windows platforms, XP, Vista, 7, and 8.1
The XP, Vista, 8.1, and other 7 machines all like each other
and share files/printers ok. Everything is done with a windows workgroup
(because of the older machines). Network discovery is on everywhere.
Everything is wireless here
One machine, the one with most of the media and files, has a lot
of trouble with classic Microsoft networking. It will work for a short
time ... then it will stop. It can't see anything else in classic filesharing,
& none of the other machines can see it. It is a windows 7 SP1 with
current patches, x64, & for the moment, firewalls, antivirus are all off.
Sometimes I can get things to work for a while by randomly re-sharing
some part of the file system on the sulky 7. Then time passes, & everything
is disconnected again.
This has recently gotten a lot worse - in the past connection would last
(or reconnection wouldn't be a problem) for months, but now it seems like
it's minutes.
What is wrong? Are there any tools or monitoring that would help debug
this? Router config issues? Anything?
with a variety of windows platforms, XP, Vista, 7, and 8.1
The XP, Vista, 8.1, and other 7 machines all like each other
and share files/printers ok. Everything is done with a windows workgroup
(because of the older machines). Network discovery is on everywhere.
Everything is wireless here
One machine, the one with most of the media and files, has a lot
of trouble with classic Microsoft networking. It will work for a short
time ... then it will stop. It can't see anything else in classic filesharing,
& none of the other machines can see it. It is a windows 7 SP1 with
current patches, x64, & for the moment, firewalls, antivirus are all off.
Sometimes I can get things to work for a while by randomly re-sharing
some part of the file system on the sulky 7. Then time passes, & everything
is disconnected again.
This has recently gotten a lot worse - in the past connection would last
(or reconnection wouldn't be a problem) for months, but now it seems like
it's minutes.
What is wrong? Are there any tools or monitoring that would help debug
this? Router config issues? Anything?
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