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Cannot disable IP Routing in Win 7
Hi Ladies/Gentlemen,
Totally new to this.
I have just joined this forum yesterday as I've come to the end of my wits.
I'm trying to work out why I cannot network this HP laptop win 7 Ultimate, to win XP desktop.
My daughters HP win 7 Home Premium laptop connected fine to the workgroup I have setup at home. I can see it from xp machine and vica versa.
I have just upgraded my HP laptop to win7 ultimate.
connects to Belkin wireless router.
XP desktop connects to Belkin wireless router (also has Ethernet cable connected to Belkin router). The eth cable takes precedence and works fine, as I will explain later.
I can see my three machines in win xp desktop,
1 XP desktop (XP-D)
2 HP laptop win 7 Home Premium (win7-HP)
3 HP laptop with win 7 Ultimate (win7-U)
I also see the same in my Daughters laptop win 7 Home Prmium
1 XP desktop
2 HP laptop win 7 Home Premium
3 HP laptop with win 7 Ultimate
when I try to access win7-HP from XP-D, all is fine and Visa Versa.
But, when I try to access the win7-U from my other two machines I get the following
Windows cannot access \\win7-U
check speeling of the name. Otherwise, there might be a problem with your network. To try to identify and resolve network problems, click Diagnose.
Error code: 0x80070035
The network path was not found.
In my effort to determine the root cause, I sat the two win 7 machines next to each other and made sure that all is AOK for all settings, I have followed some of the threads in this forum, which by the way is excellent., but to no availe.
I finally downloaded a program called wireshark and tried to determine why I cannot ping the win7-U.
It turns out that when I do a ping from the two other machines to win7-U, it sends it out to the www, internet. I can tell by the IP addressing which is no longer private and is definetly public.
So, I again looked at ipconfig/all for the two win 7 machines and noticed that
IP Routing is set to YES for the win7-U machine, but not the other two.
Windows IP Configuration
Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : win7-U
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : Yes
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : Belkin
I have also tried the regedit of the following to set it to 0 and restarted my machine, but it does not change it when I do an ipconfig /all command.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip
\Parameters
subkey : "IPEnableRouter" entry to 0
and rebooted.
Am I on the right track to working out the reason why I cannot access my win7-U machine from the other two, even though I can see it in the my network window.
I cannot see any machines in the win7-U. It sometimes sees itself.
Please help me if you can, and be patient with me in trying to respond to your questions. I even had trouble working out how to start this thread.