I found that scenario was fairly common when using wireless connections even
with WinXP. Your NICs periodically renegotiate their connections, one or
another may sometimes connect to other people's unsecured routers or access
point and your LAN connections get screwed up. Intermittent RF interference
from other sources can also cause problems.
"Thumper" <Thumper@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I have 2 Vista boxes (PC1 and PC2) with sharing properly enabled. I am
> logging on with the same user account name and password on both. From PC
> 1 I
> have persistent mapped drives to 2 external drives on PC 2. I able to
> access
> these shares for a *few* days and they go off-line (Red X) unreachable. I
> am
> also unable to reach any regular file shares on PC 2 from PC 1. There is
> also a printer that is shared off PC 2 that I am unable to reach.
>
> Here is the kicker: I am able to browse the net fine from PC 1 so
> networking
> is working in a way. I have already reloaded PC 1 thinking there was a
> corrupt file causing this and within a few days I was back in the same
> shape.
> Unable to reach shares or printer on PC 2 from PC 1 .
> Both machines use wireless NICs so I am going to try and use a different
> NIC
> in Box 1 and see what happens.
>
> Other suggestions???
>
> What the heck is going on????