eraserhead187
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- 6 Jul 2005
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This has been driving me nuts for a couple weeks now. Here's our setup:
4 boxes running XP Pro, in a peer-to-peer home network. One of these, let's call it STUFF, acts as a server for streaming audio and video to the other boxes in the house. We also have it hooked up to a television to watch video through. Our router is a Linksys WRT54G, with wireless-g, although all of the boxes that we are running are cabled to the router with Cat5E.
Until a couple weeks ago, none of the other boxes had any trouble pulling files from STUFF. At that time, one of the other computers on the network, let's call it BOX1, began having intermittent connectivity issues. I would be watching a video, copying a file, or connecting to STUFF using Remote Desktop, and after a moment or two, would lose connectivity altogether on BOX1. BOX1 would lose its IP address, and could not connect to STUFF, our router, or the internet. Also cannot ping any other computer on the network, or the router. If I try to open a share on STUFF while the connectivity is down, it reports an error message that the share is unavailable. These disconnections always occur in the middle of a file transfer, or at any point while I am connected to STUFF via Remote Desktop. I have the latest firmware installed in both the NIC(Marvell Yukon Gigabit) on BOX1 and the router.
After these disconnetions occur, I cannot obtain a IP lease from the router unless I either disable and then enable my network card, or restart the system. Then everything is fine, but if I attempt to connect to STUFF in any way, it happens again. I do not have any internet trouble until I connect to STUFF from BOX1. None of the other computers have any trouble connecting to BOX1 or STUFF. The problem only exists between BOX1 and STUFF, no matter which direction files are headed.
I should also add that Event Viewer does not give any events or error codes when this happens. The only error even that occurs on BOX1 is when it cannot obtain an IP address via DHCP. The only events that occur on stuff say that a master browser election is being forced, and this does not seem to occur at the same time.
BOX1 has XP SP2 installed, while STUFF has only SP1. I thought that for this reason, and the fact that the hardware in BOX1 is far superior to that of STUFF, there may be an issue with the computers fighting for master browser. I set the IsDomainMaster on BOX1 to FALSE, and on STUFF to TRUE. Still having the problem. I'm about out of possibilities here, any help would be appreciated. Thanks so much!!
Bobby
4 boxes running XP Pro, in a peer-to-peer home network. One of these, let's call it STUFF, acts as a server for streaming audio and video to the other boxes in the house. We also have it hooked up to a television to watch video through. Our router is a Linksys WRT54G, with wireless-g, although all of the boxes that we are running are cabled to the router with Cat5E.
Until a couple weeks ago, none of the other boxes had any trouble pulling files from STUFF. At that time, one of the other computers on the network, let's call it BOX1, began having intermittent connectivity issues. I would be watching a video, copying a file, or connecting to STUFF using Remote Desktop, and after a moment or two, would lose connectivity altogether on BOX1. BOX1 would lose its IP address, and could not connect to STUFF, our router, or the internet. Also cannot ping any other computer on the network, or the router. If I try to open a share on STUFF while the connectivity is down, it reports an error message that the share is unavailable. These disconnections always occur in the middle of a file transfer, or at any point while I am connected to STUFF via Remote Desktop. I have the latest firmware installed in both the NIC(Marvell Yukon Gigabit) on BOX1 and the router.
After these disconnetions occur, I cannot obtain a IP lease from the router unless I either disable and then enable my network card, or restart the system. Then everything is fine, but if I attempt to connect to STUFF in any way, it happens again. I do not have any internet trouble until I connect to STUFF from BOX1. None of the other computers have any trouble connecting to BOX1 or STUFF. The problem only exists between BOX1 and STUFF, no matter which direction files are headed.
I should also add that Event Viewer does not give any events or error codes when this happens. The only error even that occurs on BOX1 is when it cannot obtain an IP address via DHCP. The only events that occur on stuff say that a master browser election is being forced, and this does not seem to occur at the same time.
BOX1 has XP SP2 installed, while STUFF has only SP1. I thought that for this reason, and the fact that the hardware in BOX1 is far superior to that of STUFF, there may be an issue with the computers fighting for master browser. I set the IsDomainMaster on BOX1 to FALSE, and on STUFF to TRUE. Still having the problem. I'm about out of possibilities here, any help would be appreciated. Thanks so much!!
Bobby