Hi
Can you use the Internet when they go off-line (Red X)?
Jack (MVP-Networking).
"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????