Oddly enough I must focus on "How", "Why", and "WTF" way too much...........
I finally just did a ReStart of the suspect machine. All LAN Clients are
now back in the NN/Workgroup. I just give up! I found nothing except
several information entries in the Event Log between 0732 and 0759 this am.
None of them seem to be germane to this glitch. I will now just sit, watch
and see what the future has to offer.
Thank you...............
Duncan
At 12:10 03/27/2009 -0400, you wrote:
Normally when I open NetNeighborhood/workgroup I seen the 8 objects on my
LAN. This am during coffee, I open the NN/workgroup window on this
machine and I only see 3 objects. I see my printer, my server and my
NAS. I do NOT see any of my 5 LAN clients; and all of my LAN clients run
WinXPproSP3.........hmmm.
The glitch seems to be limited to just this 1 client because I can go to
the 4 other XP clients and still see all 8 "workgroup" clients! I can
even open the shares of the client with this glitch. I suppose one of my
Gbit switches could be flakey, but everyone else works fine.
Other than having 5 clients invisible to me, this machine seems to run
completely normal as far as I can tell.
Have googled all morning and found nothing yet conclusive yet. Researched
the normal winsock repair commands and even managed to create the winsock
catalog of this machine. It looks normal to me, but then I may not know
how to interpret the dot-txt file I created.
I did see mention of a "NetDiag" tool from M$ in something called
Supplemental Tools, but I have not yet found a valid link to same.....
I've dug around inside this machine as far as I know. Nothing found
yet. See nothing odd in the event log either. ESET, MalwareBytes, and
SpybotS&D all run; nothing found.
Ideas? Suggestions appreciated.......
Best,
Duncan
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