New W7 64 install -network issues? Network printer, SMB share & others


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    Windows 7 Professional 64 bit
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    New W7 64 install -network issues? Network printer, SMB share & others


    I've just had a new PC built for me, for the first time rather than build it myself I aid a local shop, and it's a pretty nice machine. They got windows up and running, when I got it back and lugged it in I don't even remember it asking about whether my network was home, work or public (I may be mistaken about that)

    A lot of the networking is fine, by adding 'everyone' to the share, and joining the same homegroup as my laptop, I managed to get each to see their desktops, so I'm up and running with most of my workflow. But there's a couple of things not quite right about the network:

    I've got a Xerox Phaser 60 network printer. It's got a simple 'walk-up' installer where you get the windows software into listening mode and then on the printer's menu initiate the connection. This doesn't find the printer. Even choosing the manual option of inputting the ip won't find it. So I've had to connect it with USB, not the end of the world, but shows that something's not right.

    I have a lot of media on a dlna server in my home. Setting up kodi to find it, the SMB devices didn't show the host. Though, manually typing the IP in this case did find it. Lucky I knew the IP. Weird

    And trying to FTP to my website fails too. It says "EAI_FAIL - Nonrecoverable failure in name resolution" Yet the same settings on my laptop (imported from the laptop) connects fine.

    Surely there's something not quite right. Is there a way to reset all the network connection settings to default 'out of the box' settings?
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  2. Posts : 10
    Windows 7 Professional 64 bit
    Thread Starter
       #2

    OK, I just rethought it a little and added filezilla to the firewall exceptions list. Now t's working! I wonder if the same would fix the printer issue?
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  3. Posts : 10
    Windows 7 Professional 64 bit
    Thread Starter
       #3

    OK, no idea why but after a reboot it now fails to connect, saying 'waiting for welcome message'
    It's still in the firewall's allowed list
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