i can"t turn on network discovery

[adicontakt]

so i just installed win 7 rc and i can"t turn on network discovery , does anyone why?

 

[Digger]

how are you trying to do this? there are 3 ways (that i'm aware of), i'll stick to the 2 easiest, most familiar. First is in the advanced settings in the network and sharing center. Second way is to go to explorer(or thru start menu), on side navi of explorer go to network, you should then get a prompt at the top of the explorer window, like an active X prompt, click that and it should enable discovery.

 

[adicontakt]

i find where to turn on but everytime i select on after i click save changes it is still checked off

 

[Digger]

i find where to turn on but everytime i select on after i click save changes it is still checked off

i can believe that. Ok, are you on a HG? any pc?

 

[adicontakt]

yes it is a homegroup, with a router between pc and laptop

 

[Digger]

ok, leave HG on all pcs, reboot each pc, and turn off router while pcs reboot, the fire up the router, then see if that changes things.

also, what model router btw

 

[adicontakt]

i leave the homegroup , still the same , i can"t turn on the netowrk discovery, i can see my pc from my laptop , but the laptop from my pc no.
i have a wirless router konig cmp100
the laptop is wirless , the pc is wired both tru the same router

 

[Digger]

i leave the homegroup , still the same , i can"t turn on the netowrk discovery, i can see my pc from my laptop , but the laptop from my pc no.
i have a wirless router konig cmp100
the laptop is wirless , the pc is wired both tru the same router

key here is shutting down the router, cold. Also of course leaving HG on all pcs and doing a hard boot to reitterate, and if hard boot doesnt work, uninstall/reinstall adapter drivers.

Also... i assume all pcs are on RC 7100, correct?

tho this still may not fix, i just want it clear about the need for cold/hard boots of the pcs and routers. and the fact that you have all pcs on 7100.

 

[adicontakt]

laptop have win7rc , xp on the pc

 

[Digger]

laptop have win7rc , xp on the pc

are you on a domain or workgroup?

gateway and dns configured in tcp/ip 4?

do you also have "use user account and passwords to connect to other computers"?

How about when going to the "network" folder, do you get the prompt at the top of the explorer asking/telling you to enable network discover "click here"?

 

[adicontakt]

i don"t have this option How about when going to the "network" folder, do you get the prompt at the top of the explorer asking/telling you to enable network discover "click here"?""
if i connect both computers with a cable tru a router works fine, only in wirless sems to be the problem

 

[Digger]

yes, i first got the prompt after initial install BEFORE i setup HG... i enabled it that way, yes.


What do you mean by connecting both computers... how are you doing this, by homegroup? or just regular filesharing, or .... ??

secondly... i'm also going to assume that both the wired and wireless adapter are different manufacturers... possibly for both pcs... would need that info... and how did the driver installation process go? did win7 install driver, did you, if so, how? and where from?

 

[adicontakt]

pc network adapter is realtek wired, laptop adaptor wired is also realtek , wireless laptop adapter is atheros. the rouer it is a edimax br-6204wg. the wirless adapter was instaled by windows after that i inssaled the vista driver, and after a few days i updated the soft.
""What do you mean by connecting both computers... how are you doing this, by homegroup? or just regular filesharing, or .... ??"" i don""t know, i just put the cable on lan port the pc (with winxp) ask me about the password and username and thats it
P.S. do u have a software like teamwier to help me? i would let u see whats the problem

 

[adicontakt]

i solved the problem. the antivirus firewall set my network as a public netowork after i set the network as a trusted one i can acces my laptop from my pc with the username and password

 

[Digger]

i solved the problem. the antivirus firewall set my network as a public netowork after i set the network as a trusted one i can acces my laptop from my pc with the username and password

yikes! what AV? kas or norton/symantec by chance?

 

[adicontakt]

kaspersky internet security

 

[Digger]

kaspersky internet security

i mean this in the best of ways... good luck with that.. i had my own problems with it on 7000

 

[adicontakt]

btw the netowrk discovery in windos is still off but i can navigate to other computer

 

[Elevate]

follow up with kaspersky

a solution for me was because of 2 things...one my server service was not enabled and the second being that i was recently converted to kaspersky. think i might go back to avast after this idk. ugh lol. but either way. the solution from kaspersky so that i could see the computer in my network and connect to the dang printer was to go to the kaspersky firewall settings and go to the networks tab. for me i had 2 drop down menus this is what it kinda looks like for me

Other Networks
.......Internet.................... Connected........... Public network
Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller
.........neo.rr.com.................. Connected .............. Trusted network

what i did was switched the Trusted network to local and the computer and printer showed up. i hope this works for someone who has ran into this problem as well.

 

[flushgriffo]

Hello I am having the same problem with my network. And whenI read the bit about the kaspersky I was so relieved as I am using Kaspersky. But when I changed to settings on the firewall to trusted and local still the network sharing wouldnt stay on. I am using Windows 7 professional 64-bit onmy laptop and then windows xp 32-bit on the pc,Both are wirelessand both with completely different network cards. The printer is connected to the pc andI am unable to add it nore even find the pc on my laptopand vice versa on the pc. I cannot find the laptop on the pc. Should I manually create a network or should it recognise all the computers connected to the router and automatically make them visible. I've had some problem for this for a while now even when I had windows Vista 32-bit on my laptop I was unable to be detected nore detect other pc's connected to the router. Any help would be much appreciated, something so easy and straight forward for most people is becoming a nightmare for me
Thanks
Damian