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Network Map
This may be more of a curiosity question than a problem, since everything seems to be working OK. But I'm puzzled by it, so I'll ask.
I have a network with two computers--one a Dell With Windows 7 Ultimate 64, and the other a Gateway with Windows XP Home SP3. If I go to the Network and Sharing Center, it shows my Dell computer, my Connection, a Home Network, and the Internet. If I then click on the link in the upper right of the box, labeled "See full map," I get what confuses me a bit.
It shows across the top, (after a brief delay with a message that says Windows is creating the network map), on the left, Dell, in the center, WNDR330 (my wireless router) and the Internet. That all seems fine to me. But at the bottom right corner of the screen is a line that says "The following Discovered Device(s) Cannot be placed on the map." It also has a link that says "Click here to see all other devices." Under that is the Gateway computer.
If I click the Gateway Icon, I get a message that says "Windows cannot access \\Gateway. Check the spelling of the name. There might be a problem with your network. To try to identify and resolve network problems, click Diagnose." There is also a clickable item for DETAILS. If I click the DETAILS item, I get "Error Code 0x80070035 The Network Path was not found." If I click the Diagnose button, it runs through a series of tests, and finishes with (sorry I didn't write this down verbatum), but the gist of it is, Everything appears to be configured correctly, but GATEWAY could not be accssed.
Now, for the odd part. BEFORE doing all of this, I could access the Gateway from the Dell (using Windows Explorer,) under Network or Network Locations respectively. After running the DIAGNOSE, I could not access EITHER machine from the other. However, once I rebooted the Gateway, I could then access each computer from the other.
Clearly, there is something here that isn't quite how it should be. But it doesn't seem to affect access from Windows Explorer, but DOES impact on the ability of Windows to create the network map. And something in the Diagnose procedure, APPEARS to mess up access until at least one of the systems is rebooted.
Any ideas on what is happening here?
Last edited by RP McIntosh; 29 Apr 2010 at 14:09. Reason: Insert missing parentheses