thanks a lot - you were correct. symantec endpoint protection is on all of the computers - if both the firewalls were enabled the computer name would not resolve. turn off the firewall on htpc or quad-core and it worked great. eventually i found a setting - Unmatched ip traffic settings -...
hello there - thank you for reading my post. i have 3 computers - a laptop (vista wireless), a home theater pc (win 7 wireless) and my main computer (win 7 wired) with all my media files. i have a network setup and the laptop and the HTPC can connect to each other when i click their icons in...