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Poof!!...they're gone
Hi everyone-first snag on my one year trouble free home network.Using a Linksys router to connect two XP's,and three 7's,oh,and a printer.This set up without a hitch,despite all the horror stories about XP's "seeing and talking to" 7's.Suddenly,yesterday,one of the 7's (a Lenovo notebook) was unable to locate either of the XP's on the network map.Funny thing though-both XP's were able to "see" and retrieve files from the Lenovo.Strange indeed.Since I never had any success with Homegroup,having them all "talk" to each other on my network (MSHOME),I was perfectly happy.I've checked every service and setting I can think of,but to no avail.If this helps,the only strange things I see are,(1) the network discovery type for the Lenovo is WSD,where all other devices on the network are SSDP,and (2),the Lenovo shows the IP that it acquires from my workplace(127.0.0.1),instead of the usual 192.168.blah.blah associated with the Linksys router.Though it does connect to the internet and "see" the other 7's when I'm at home.Any ideas? I'm not a network guy,and just stepped in $hit when this all came together for me last year.Lucky then,but not smart enough to fix it now.Googled and read til my head hurt yesterday.Thanks for the read!