Re: File sharing breaks while already in use
- From: lurker <king-daddy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 06:49:05 -0400
POSITRON wrote:
Original thread with same subject line was posted 05/30/2006 in this group.
Consider a home network with two PCs connected to a linksys router.
1) Windows XP Home and
2) Windows 2000 PRO
Both have been updated with all critical updates.
All has been well for several months. On Windows XP I use Quicken and FrontPage 2000 with their data files on Windows 2000 File Shares.
Several (many?) weeks ago, I would go to bed with all working, and the next morning, the Windows XP machine could no longer use (or create new) shares.
After many frustrating weeks, I have observed the network connection fails at any time of day, even if in use. There are no entries in either system's Event Viewer.
Ping between the two machines works in both directions.
Net use from Windows 2000 to Windows XP works fine. It does not work for XP => 2000. Net use produces error message
System Error 53. Network not found.
Rebooting the Windows 2000 machine fixes the problem.
I am looking for suggestions on what tools, procedures to use to troubleshoot the problem.
UPDATE:
Machines are FIXED IP Ethernet connected to linksys router at 192.168.1.1.
Netbios through TCP/IP is enabled.
All has been well for about two weeks this time. Power outage today due to tropical storm caused me to have a fresh power up on all systems.
A short while later, my failure showed up again.
I have made diagnostic output available at
http://rpchc.com/chuck/
to resolve text formatting issue when pasted into newsgroup.
Observation this round:
Running chucks cdiag from a command prompt, I observed a message:
System Error 53. Network not found.
I traced it to a failing command:
"NET VIEW 127.0.0.1"
After rebooting QUEENIE, the NET VIEW command works okay. The omission of the NET VIEW "127.0.0.1" results from the cdiag.txt (right before the ping of YAHOO) is easy to overlook.
I think this might be the clue I have been looking for, but I don't know what to do with it.
King-daddy
UPDATE::
I went to bed with it working. No activity on either machine all night. At 0630 I find it failing again.
Only two machines powered up on the home network:
1) QUEENIE (Windows 2000); Master Browser.
C:\WINNT>net view 127.0.0.1
System error 53 has occurred.
The network path was not found.
C:\WINNT>ping 127.0.0.1
Pinging 127.0.0.1 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=128
Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=128
Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=128
Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=128
Ping statistics for 127.0.0.1:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms
C:\WINNT>net view localhost
System error 53 has occurred.
The network path was not found.
2) KING-DADDY (Windows XP Home):
C:\WINDOWS>net view \\queenie /cache
System error 51 has occurred.
Windows cannot find the network path. Verify that the network path is correct and the destination computer is not busy or turned off. If Windows still cannot find the network path, contact your network administrator.
Ping works okay in both directions.
HOSTS file has
127.0.0.1 localhost
Ideas?
king-daddy
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