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    My desktop connects to the server fine. My laptop sitting right next to my desktop will not connect to WHS. Both are connected to the same router. Both are running XP Pro fully updated. Both are running Firefox as the browser. Cannot Ping the server with the laptop but I can with the desktop. Swapped cables and connections no change. Network cards are set the same (Default). Both computers connect to the internet just fine. Have searched for various suggestions but no luck. Any help with this would be appreciated.
    Saturday, January 23, 2010 8:57 PM

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    If you launch a command window (%SystemRoot%\system32\cmd.exe) and type ipconfig /all from each machine, what do you see?  Anything indicating different subnet masks, different subnets, ...?

    Also, from the command window, try tracert "server name" from each machine to see if that gives an indication of where packets are going awry.

    Lastly, is your laptop able to ping other machines?  Can it ping your desktop?
    Saturday, January 23, 2010 9:44 PM

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    If you launch a command window (%SystemRoot%\system32\cmd.exe) and type ipconfig /all from each machine, what do you see?  Anything indicating different subnet masks, different subnets, ...?

    Also, from the command window, try tracert "server name" from each machine to see if that gives an indication of where packets are going awry.

    Lastly, is your laptop able to ping other machines?  Can it ping your desktop?
    Saturday, January 23, 2010 9:44 PM
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    I could not ping any of my network computers. Your post gave me some additional ideas. The only other things I had changed was to make a direct ethernet connection between my main computer and the WHS (bypassing my network) so I could more quickly copy movie files to my WHS shared drive. So I went in and disabled both of these connections and now my computers can see each other. I have not set this type of connection up before but I guess by doing so over-rode the primary network connections on my main and WHS computers so other computers in the network could not see them. So I guess the lesson here is that you cannot have more than one network connection enabled at a time without causing issues to occur. You probably understand this better than I. If you have any other thoughts about this that would be great otherwise thanks for the help. I have only been messing with this for the last 5 hours. 
    Saturday, January 23, 2010 10:16 PM
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    Glad it helped.

    As for what I understand...  Well I know that multiple network connections on a machine are theoretically possible but the details of making it work right are vexing and escape the grasp of most mortals.  I am one of those mortals. I know when network fanciness can go wrong, but I don't know how to do it right.  Hence I tend to opt for the simple.
    Saturday, January 23, 2010 10:53 PM
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    I am one of those mortals as well. I will just leave them disabled until I need them again. Thanks for the help!
    Saturday, January 23, 2010 11:53 PM