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File Sharing and Home Network Issues
Ok, I'll try to be as detailed as possible, as I know that it will help in determining the problem; I apologize if
this gets lengthy, though.
I have 4 computers on a home network, all running Windows 7 Ultimate. 3 computers are running the 64-bit version,
one is running the 32-bit version. The 2 desktop computers have Mcafee for the anti-virus and firewall program,
and the 2 laptops have Norton Internet Security 2010. The only PC that cannot connect to the other PCs on the
network is my laptop, which has Windows 7 64-bit and NIS 2010. My brother's laptop, which also have Win7 64-bit
and NIS 2010, was having problems with connecting to the other PCs and being seen on our home network, but I
tweaked some settings on NIS 2010, and now those problems have been resolved. I did the same tweaks on my laptop,
but it did not help. My laptop shows up in the list of PCs on the other computers, but they are unable to connect
to it; likewise, the other PCs show up on my list on my laptop, but I cannot connect to them. When I try to, I get
the message: "Windows cannot access (name of PC)"; when I click on See Details, it gives me "Error code: 0x80070035
The network path was not found." Clicking the Diagnose button does not help; the Windows troubleshooter is unable
to find the problem.
This also ties into a problem with streaming music on our Xbox 360. At first, my brother was unable to stream
music to it, either; after the NIS 2010 tweaks, he is now able to. My laptop does not even show up on the list on
the Xbox 360. I made sure to enable file and printer sharing on my laptop, and all the PCs have the network
they're connected to as being a home network. I feel like I've enabled all the proper settings and things; I even
completely disabled NIS 2010 on my laptop to see if that would help, but it did not. I've also tried leaving the
homegroup, then rejoining, to no avail. I'm not sure why messing with the same settings on my brother's laptop
worked, while it doesn't work for my laptop. Is there some sort of setting I've missed? Is there any other info
that you would need to troubleshoot this? The only other thing is that my laptop is an HP Pavilion, and the rest
of the PCs are Dell computers. That shouldn't affect anything, though, should it?