| [Windows] LAN Problem I have a four-computer LAN: two desktops and a laptop running Win 7 and a laptop running Linux Mint.
The Linux box has access to all the other computers.
However my desktop cannot access the Win 7 laptop and the Win 7 laptop cannot access my desktop.
The error message is:
"Error code: 0x80070035 The network path was not found."
The other desktop can access my desktop but not the Win 7 laptop.
All have common accounts.
I'm baffled. Google results are for a two-computer set-up but this situation doesn't match any of the solutions they have proposed.
Any ideas? Thanks |
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| Are all Windows 7 computers are using 128-bit encryption shares or 40/56-bit? Try changing to 40/56-bit?
Try disabling SMB 2.0, see: »www.petri.co.il/how-to-disable-s···2008.htm |
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| Changed my desktop and the Win 7 laptop to 40/56-bit. No change.
I'll try disabling SMB 2.0 when I can find instructions particular to Win 7.
Thanks. |
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| said by eschamp:...when I can find instructions particular to Win 7.
The instructions I posted are one in the same for Windows 7 |
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| I disabled SMB on both machines and it made no difference.
Is SMB a service? Can I monitor its status with something like the Component Services admin tool?
Thanks. |
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| reply to eschamp
SMB is the protocol for file sharing between windows machines, as in what you get when "client for microsoft networks" and "file and printer sharing" is checked under the NIC properties.
Do you perhaps have a WINS server specified? or some IP there (which shouldn't be) Perhaps DNS is not allowing the machine to be discovered by name...
Let's say one machine has IP: 192.168.4.4
can you reach it by UNC path \\192.168.4.4 instead of by name? |
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| said by techguy2012:SMB is the protocol for file sharing between windows machines, as in what you get when "client for microsoft networks" and "file and printer sharing" is checked under the NIC properties.
Do you perhaps have a WINS server specified? or some IP there (which shouldn't be) Perhaps DNS is not allowing the machine to be discovered by name...
Let's say one machine has IP: 192.168.4.4
can you reach it by UNC path \\192.168.4.4 instead of by name?
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No WINS servers on my desktop. LMHOST lookup is enabled. Default NetBIOS setting.
Where would I enter the \\ address? |
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| reply to eschamp
start > run > \\192.168.4.4\[name of share]
or if you want the C: drive of the windows machine
start > run > \\192.168.4.4\c$ |
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| I went into my router/WAP and it cannot see the WLT (Windows laptop) at all! It does see the repeater (Linksys WRE54G) and the WLT is on "the other side" of the repeater.
Wonder if that's part of the problem.
In any case, I don't know what the IP address of the WLT is but the other two computers are accessible via IP address. |
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| reply to eschamp
You can determine the IP of a windows machine, on the machine itself ...
start > run > cmd > ipconfig
Perhaps the wireless link is just too weak/unstable to support the UNC share getting back to the router.
It's also possible the WLT machine is associated to someone else's network (and not your own)
If you visit ipchicken.com on all the machines, do they all show the same IP? |
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| All four machines show the same ipchicken.com IP address.
Let me restate this.
I have four computers on this network, all Win 7 except one laptop which is in a bedroom:
1) My desktop (MDT), Ethernet connection -- in office
2) Wife's desktop (WDT), Ethernet connection -- in office
3) My Win 7 laptop (MLT), wireless via a Linksys WRE54G extender
4) My Linux Mint laptop (LLT), wireless via the router/WAP -- in office
My router/WAP displays 1,2,4 and the extender but not MLT.
The MLT displays all four computers but can access only itself and the LLT.
MDT displays all four but can access all except MLT.
What's the significance of being able to "see" all four but not being able to access all four?
Thanks. |
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| reply to eschamp
I'm not sure where to go from here, but this might be key...
"router/WAP displays 1,2,4 and the extender but not MLT"
...explainable as the extender is obtaining an IP from the router, perhaps it is NAT'ing the PC, rather than being a true bridge???
Do you have "AP isolation" or "Station Separation" configured on the wireless settings on the router? Try turning that off? |
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| I don't see anything like "AP isolation" or "Station separation" in the wireless setting of the router (a Westell 327W, BTW).
I'm pretty sure I set the extender up for WDS Bridging.
Thanks. |
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| reply to eschamp
For the past several days, I have been unable to log in to a reset WRE54G device. I think I'm going to have to buy something new.
Which range extenders do we like? |
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| reply to eschamp
Personally, I don't like any range extenders. I would run a CAT5 from the router to wherever a second or third access point needed to be.
My second option would be to use MoCA or Powerline network kits to extend Ethernet into another room, then put an access point there, example...
Router > MoCA adapter > coax already in the wall > MoCA adapter > Wireless AP |
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| MoCA. You mean I can run Ethernet over the TV cable? The coax in my office runs back to a splitter; another splitter output is a direct run to the room where the other TV is. Can MoCA negotiate that?
Two MoCa adapters and a new WAP sounds expensive! |
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| The answers to my questions  are Yes and Yes.
And it is expensive. A repeater would cost 1/5th as much.
Thanks. |
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| reply to eschamp
No problem, but IMHO a repeater will work 1/5th as good. |
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| How do you measure that? |
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