Bearded_Clam
New Member
Same problems as the OP
Earlier I read this entire thread to see if a fix to the problem had been found.
I didnt bother trying most of the fixes on the list simply because I knew they wouldnt work, or have any bearing on the problem.
My situation is somewhat different from the OP. I am the system admin and have access to everything, and can do anything I want because its my network. My main differences are that I have W7 Build 7100 x64 installed on the PC I am typing this on, and having had no problems up until I wanted to print something (via another PC on the network) I was reasonably happy with W7 so far (sucks less balls than Vista, and is pretty fast).
Anyway I digress..... I found that the PC's on the network that were visible were this W7 machine and the Vista PC. The 8 XP machines, 1 W2K3 Server, and 2 Linux servers were not there.
After not bothering with most of the standard stuff I skipped straight to the W7 specific things, and I even disabled the Windows firewall. As nothing had been suggested that I havent already skipped or tried I started to look at other possibilities.
The answer was so simple I was stunned. It seems that DHCP + W7 is a bad mixture because I gave the PC a fixed IP address and everything worked right away.
So, as the answer to my problem was so simple I would suggest everyone who has this (or similar) problems should just find out what their IP range and Default gateway are and tap in some numbers manually.
Andy
Earlier I read this entire thread to see if a fix to the problem had been found.
I didnt bother trying most of the fixes on the list simply because I knew they wouldnt work, or have any bearing on the problem.
My situation is somewhat different from the OP. I am the system admin and have access to everything, and can do anything I want because its my network. My main differences are that I have W7 Build 7100 x64 installed on the PC I am typing this on, and having had no problems up until I wanted to print something (via another PC on the network) I was reasonably happy with W7 so far (sucks less balls than Vista, and is pretty fast).
Anyway I digress..... I found that the PC's on the network that were visible were this W7 machine and the Vista PC. The 8 XP machines, 1 W2K3 Server, and 2 Linux servers were not there.
After not bothering with most of the standard stuff I skipped straight to the W7 specific things, and I even disabled the Windows firewall. As nothing had been suggested that I havent already skipped or tried I started to look at other possibilities.
The answer was so simple I was stunned. It seems that DHCP + W7 is a bad mixture because I gave the PC a fixed IP address and everything worked right away.
So, as the answer to my problem was so simple I would suggest everyone who has this (or similar) problems should just find out what their IP range and Default gateway are and tap in some numbers manually.
Andy