This is kind of a shot in the dark but I'm hoping maybe someone else has seen the same issue.
I have two computers on my network. Both have internet access and no problems connecting outside the network. However, one computer shows up in my router's device information as "inactive". That computer can't transfer files through the network using windows' homegroup (even though I've entered the password and joined it) and it can't even access the router's configuration page through the default gateway. In fact, running ipconfig on this problem computer returns this for my local area connection.
[code]Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : lan
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::6182:b4c3:bfb:cec7%11
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 173.206.96.80
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 173.206.64.1[/code]
That ipv4 address is the same one that appears when I go to whatismyip, and it doesn't look like a local ip address to me. I don't know, I haven't studied networking. The default gateway also looks wonky and doesn't actually take me to my router.
So it seems like right now this computer does not have a proper internal IP and it's making it impossible to communicate inside the network. Again, I do have internet access.
Things I've done;
-Reverted to factory settings on my router
-Reset my tcp/ip networking stack in windows
-Left the network and rediscovered it
-Reformatted my drive and re-installed windows (seriously)
-Updated my bios
-Combinations of all those things
-Maybe some other stuff
Any ideas for things I can try or what might be causing this? It's pretty annoying.
Sounds like a fucked up router or network card, can you check if this problem happens with anything else (e.g. A smartphone connected to the network)
[QUOTE=djjkxbox360;40545942]Sounds like a fucked up router or network card, can you check if this problem happens with anything else (e.g. A smartphone connected to the network)[/QUOTE]
Yeah everything else on the network checks out and so do my router and network card. I swapped both of those out yesterday, did hard resets and all that and still the same crap.
Apparently I can transfer things just fine if both devices are in the same hamachi network, so hamachi it is.
I couldn't find anyone at my ISP, Thomson telecom, MSI or any of my friends in networking that had ever seen this. Cursed computer I guess. Wants to just sit away from its friends in a corner and refuses to share. Beats me.
[QUOTE=Latency;40540685]This is kind of a shot in the dark but I'm hoping maybe someone else has seen the same issue.
I have two computers on my network. Both have internet access and no problems connecting outside the network. However, one computer shows up in my router's device information as "inactive". That computer can't transfer files through the network using windows' homegroup (even though I've entered the password and joined it) and it can't even access the router's configuration page through the default gateway. In fact, running ipconfig on this problem computer returns this for my local area connection.
[code]Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : lan
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::6182:b4c3:bfb:cec7%11
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 173.206.96.80
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 173.206.64.1[/code]
That ipv4 address is the same one that appears when I go to whatismyip, and it doesn't look like a local ip address to me. I don't know, I haven't studied networking. The default gateway also looks wonky and doesn't actually take me to my router.
So it seems like right now this computer does not have a proper internal IP and it's making it impossible to communicate inside the network. Again, I do have internet access.
Things I've done;
-Reverted to factory settings on my router
-Reset my tcp/ip networking stack in windows
-Left the network and rediscovered it
-Reformatted my drive and re-installed windows (seriously)
-Updated my bios
-Combinations of all those things
-Maybe some other stuff
Any ideas for things I can try or what might be causing this? It's pretty annoying.[/QUOTE]
Are both of the computers gaining the IP automatically or is it statically assigned (did you type the numbers into the box)
When you say the default gateway looks wonky what do you mean? Is this not the ip of your router?
What O/S are the machines, i have had an issue where you have to enabled the network as a home/business network, disable windows firewall and then enabled file and sharing (See: [url]http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows-vista/enable-file-and-printer-sharing[/url])
Source: I am an IT Technician
[QUOTE=hatton700;40603281]Are both of the computers gaining the IP automatically or is it statically assigned (did you type the numbers into the box)
When you say the default gateway looks wonky what do you mean? Is this not the ip of your router?
What O/S are the machines, i have had an issue where you have to enabled the network as a home/business network, disable windows firewall and then enabled file and sharing (See: [url]http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows-vista/enable-file-and-printer-sharing[/url])
Source: I am an IT Technician[/QUOTE]
Both computers are getting their IP automatically.
The default gateway result I posted [I]is[/I] the external(?) IP for my router, I've just always seen 192.168.xxx.xxx addresses under local area connection when I run ipconfig. It was the one change I noticed that I thought might be relevant to the problem, that's all.
Both machines are running windows 7 ultimate. I did end up getting sharing to work by doing what you suggested with windows firewall and sharing. No problems transferring files anymore, so really thank you. I don't have to fuck around every time I need to work now. I really appreciate it.
I still can't access my router's config page, but I can do whatever I need from my other computer. Though I guess I'd make an effort to sort it out in case someone reading this with just one machine has the same problem. Don't want to become some google result where I just go "no that's okay bye whores" and desert the thread.
That does not suprise me that turning off the Firewalls made things talk. The router is acting as your firewall and the internal firewall in windows can interfere with communication of a lot of things.
So I completely solved the issue. Looks like when I installed windows I used a device name that had previously been used with this router. I just set a new device name for the computer, restarted both it and the router, ran a windows diagnostic on the local network and voila, I now have a proper IP configuration.
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