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an interesting puzzle. I have a network on the 192.168.1.x range with all devices having a fised IP. ALL devices can see each other and connect to shares and all are windows 7 professional.
I have just bought a dell win10 laptop and it showed on network and could be shared. I then had to reinstall win10 to get rid of dell junk and upgrade to win 10 pro. Again all worked well.
The next day JUST ONE windows machine had problems. The DELL was showing in the network, the workgroup was the same (OFFICE) but everytime I tried to connect came up with the usual "network path not found" message. Tried from all other win7 machines (both 32 an 64 bit) and all found DELL and could access the shares!!! Many reboots, another win 10 install, removal of all firewalls whilst taken off the internet - still no change. Cleared the master browser from the machine with the problem - no change. Cleared the protocol stack - no change. Reset HOSTS and other networking stuff, checked master browser had moved to an always on machine. Still the same issue. Reset all group policies to default and re-enabled all the disabled services on the win 7 - no change.
Last attempt was chqanging the DELL name to others, using lower and upper case, even changing workgroup - still the same!
Oh, also tried with the IP \\192.168.1.dell and same error, but can ping the machine easliy.
I am an IT professional (yes and I love win 7 locked down properly) and this baffles me. Most of the Win7 machines were cloned from a master before licensing so all have the same set up. I just do not figure why this one machine gives the errors. Need to sort as this machine runs Goodsync to keep all machines in sync so needs the share.
Thanks if you can help!!!!
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I have just bought a dell win10 laptop and it showed on network and could be shared. I then had to reinstall win10 to get rid of dell junk and upgrade to win 10 pro. Again all worked well.
The next day JUST ONE windows machine had problems. The DELL was showing in the network, the workgroup was the same (OFFICE) but everytime I tried to connect came up with the usual "network path not found" message. Tried from all other win7 machines (both 32 an 64 bit) and all found DELL and could access the shares!!! Many reboots, another win 10 install, removal of all firewalls whilst taken off the internet - still no change. Cleared the master browser from the machine with the problem - no change. Cleared the protocol stack - no change. Reset HOSTS and other networking stuff, checked master browser had moved to an always on machine. Still the same issue. Reset all group policies to default and re-enabled all the disabled services on the win 7 - no change.
Last attempt was chqanging the DELL name to others, using lower and upper case, even changing workgroup - still the same!
Oh, also tried with the IP \\192.168.1.dell and same error, but can ping the machine easliy.
I am an IT professional (yes and I love win 7 locked down properly) and this baffles me. Most of the Win7 machines were cloned from a master before licensing so all have the same set up. I just do not figure why this one machine gives the errors. Need to sort as this machine runs Goodsync to keep all machines in sync so needs the share.
Thanks if you can help!!!!
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