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Win7 has wrong IP addr on ping, can only access with ip, not name
Hi all
Have read and tried everything here to get my Win7 PC to access my XP laptop using its name. Have 3 machines. 1 PC ( ip 192.168.0.102) and 2 XP Laptops (say LXP1 and LXP2), one is ...104 the other, the troublesome one, is ...101. If I ping the machine name
ping LXP2
I get the ping returning with the ip address of the PC (...102)
If I try to access LXP2 from Win7 PC, in Network in explorer - I am asked for the Password for the share. If I use the ip address 192.168.0.101 in the address bar at the top of explorer ( //192.168.0.101), the shares open and I can access the machine correctly.
Why does ping on the Win7 PC return the addr of the LXP2 laptop as 102 (the PC's address) but the LXP2 laptop IS correctly configured to have an address of 101 and it open on the PC with this address. This looks to me to be the reason that when trying to open the machine name (LXP2) on the PC in Network in explorer, it fails and askes for a password. The other laptop works perfectly every time. And the 2 laptops can 'see' the shares and access them on the PC. Both laptops can see each others shares and can be accessed. Its 'just' the Win7 PC to LXP2 access that appears faulty.
I tried disabling 'Network Discovery' at a suggestion on this forum and that did briefly work. But this morning - its back to its old self again, will only work when using the ip address... WEIRD?
Cheers
Paddy