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Kevin Mullins:
I think it's boiling down to a Master Browser conflict of sorts.
Been playing around with my setup and assigned one absolute master and set the rest to not be. Meaning instead of the system being able to "elect" a master from time to time there is one and only one at all times. But that also means that that ONE master HAS to be on in order for the others to find the network. This morning was the first time that I have had all four computers seeing and accessing all four computers without a single problem or "missing" a computer.
Even after getting this pc I'm on right now to recognize the network and all the other pc's,  this pc then disappeared from two of the others. (wtf??) And then i left all the machines on and all it did was sit overnight and it had quit working again. Whether it was because the "master" at that time went to sleep or whatever causing it to try and elect a new master I have no idea. (causing a conflict somehow)

So basically what I did was set this pc as the master and all the others to not be eligible, then rebooted everything and ALL was working without even a hiccup.

Might be worth playing with..... keeping in mind that whichever is set to master has to be on at all times and also while rebooting the others.

Go to START then RUN .... regedit.exe

Find:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Browser\Parameters and change the "Maintainserverlist" value to "TRUE" for the MASTER.

And then:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Browser\Parameters and change the "Maintainserverlist" value to "FALSE" on all the rest.

Default is AUTO and I haven't tried each pc on auto one at a time to see if there is one particular machine causing any sort of conflict. I might check into that, but of course that would be a lengthy investigation of trial and error.

saint:

--- Quote from: leapinlew on November 15, 2008, 12:46:07 pm ---
--- Quote from: saint on November 15, 2008, 12:07:33 pm ---In addition to trying a different NIC, if you can try a crossover cable directly between the cocktail and the main machine. If it works with a crossover cable then you may have some sort of router issue, though I doubt it since communication works one way.  You try swapping the NIC yet?

--- End quote ---

Thats a decent suggestion, as it removes the router from the equation. I wanted to add to it. If you do try a crossover, make sure to assign the machines a static IP address.



--- End quote ---

Oops, yes, what he said.

Kevin Mullins:
Just a side note to chew on:
After getting all of mine connected properly using one as a master I went back and set all of them with the value of TRUE and all is working great still. And it doesn't matter if one of them gets shutdown and rebooted or anything in between.
My girlfriends pc is running Zone Alarm so I had to set the proper privileges for the rest of them to access it, no biggy.
I also noticed that my daughters laptop actually goes into a hibernation mode, at that time it's not accessible, once again no biggy, just noted information.

So all of my pc's registry value are now:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Browser\Parameters and change the "Maintainserverlist" value to "TRUE"

Seems like the AUTO stuff has been causing MY network fits..... so might be worth taking a look at on yours.
I'm no IT or Networking guy, but I know I racked my brains with all the usual advice and resolutions that never seemed to be the cause of the problem.
I'll monitor my progress and see if it holds up solid.

Any other suggestions or understanding of why this would happen from you other fellas?

EDIT: I have not tried "adding" a new computer to the network yet to see if it gets recognized by all the others properly. I will try that later and see what happens.
I've got another laptop we haven't used in forever that I can throw in the mix and test the theory out.

EDIT 2:
Just set the other one up, normal home network stuff...... and it popped right up on all the other pc's and can be accessed with no problems. Didn't have to reboot or anything funky like that either.

SavannahLion:
That's interesting. In every single description I've ever read of windows networking. That particular Reg entry was never mentioned... ever. Should be worth looking into and might explain a lot of behavior that I originally attributed to the Linksys handling of DHCP addressing.

Kevin Mullins:
Well, like I've mentioned, I'm not a network buff ..... but I've had alot of similar issues as to what Frizzle is having and I had to dig deeeeep to find what little information I could about how the Windows stuff was "supposed" to work when it's all set up correctly.
Because obviously it still wasn't working right.
And his thread got me digging into my issues some more.
Needless to say...... it's all holding up very nicely so far.

I'm curious as to how FrizzleFried is coming along on his issues. 

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