Sorry about the long story but I need to give the full picture!
I run a small home office with 3 computers all on the same workgroup, all able to browse each others shared folders and mapped network drives: All 3 were running XP (2 Professional, 1 home. I then changed one of the XP Professionals to a notebook with Vista Home Premium. That created a few minor issues that were easily resolved.
I then changed the XP home to a netbook with Windows 7 Starter. Still all OK. I then upgraded the Vista and Windows Starter machines to Windows 7 Home Premium and now I am really stuck!
The network runs through a Netgear wireless router which has not changed at all.
The XP cannot see the two Windows 7 machines. Neither of the Windows 7 machine can see the XP machine.
Both Windows 7 machines appear in their respective 'Network & Sharing Center' windows and both appear on the Network Map (which also gives the IP & MAC addresses of each machine)
When I try an open a remote machine I get the Network Error: Windows Cannot access \\MACHINE-NAME with the error code in the details 0x80070035 The Network path was not found. When I click on the offered Diagnose button I get the message "Windows can't find "COMPUTER-NAME". ..... make sure it is turned on and connected to the network.
One machine is using Norton Internet Security the other Trend Micro - both firewalls have been turned off. (And both security suites were in place and operating when the network was functional).
Both machines have file and printer sharing turned on in the advanced sharing settings dialog. Interestingly I cannot get either machine to save the 'Turn on Network Discovery' option. I select it, click save changes, the window closes. Opening it again shows that the Off option is now selected.
Hope someone can help.
I run a small home office with 3 computers all on the same workgroup, all able to browse each others shared folders and mapped network drives: All 3 were running XP (2 Professional, 1 home. I then changed one of the XP Professionals to a notebook with Vista Home Premium. That created a few minor issues that were easily resolved.
I then changed the XP home to a netbook with Windows 7 Starter. Still all OK. I then upgraded the Vista and Windows Starter machines to Windows 7 Home Premium and now I am really stuck!
The network runs through a Netgear wireless router which has not changed at all.
The XP cannot see the two Windows 7 machines. Neither of the Windows 7 machine can see the XP machine.
Both Windows 7 machines appear in their respective 'Network & Sharing Center' windows and both appear on the Network Map (which also gives the IP & MAC addresses of each machine)
When I try an open a remote machine I get the Network Error: Windows Cannot access \\MACHINE-NAME with the error code in the details 0x80070035 The Network path was not found. When I click on the offered Diagnose button I get the message "Windows can't find "COMPUTER-NAME". ..... make sure it is turned on and connected to the network.
One machine is using Norton Internet Security the other Trend Micro - both firewalls have been turned off. (And both security suites were in place and operating when the network was functional).
Both machines have file and printer sharing turned on in the advanced sharing settings dialog. Interestingly I cannot get either machine to save the 'Turn on Network Discovery' option. I select it, click save changes, the window closes. Opening it again shows that the Off option is now selected.
Hope someone can help.