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to: Rich Gauszka
from: Antti Kurenniemi
date: 2005-07-14 07:25:24
subject: Re: AFter WU XPhome cannot connect to share by computername

From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

My laptop (also XP Home) also no longer connects to my home WLAN after the
updates. Works fine at one customer's site, and another computer works at
my home with wireless, so I'm pointing a finger at the latest update as
well.


Antti Kurenniemi
(And mostly, XP Home just sucks)

"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
news:42d5c086$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> The share works fine with another XP Pro computer
>
> The My Computer  Computer Name   is xyzaspire
>
> I put an entry in the hosts file on the XP Home machine so I can continue
> to access the share by computer name. Doing a browse in 'Map the Network
> drive' with the XP Home pc shows nothing under the workgroup. This worked
> prior to the Windows Update this morning. The XP Home pc is the only one
> that's given any problems and it's the only XP Home pc that I have to test
> with as both the laptop and media pc are XP Pro.
>
> I was going to say that it wasn't a biggie but I just discovered that my
> wireless all-in-one HP psc 2510 can't be accessed by the XP Home computer
> although the HP4l on the wireless Linksys print server still works . I'm
> beginning to hate this month's Windows Update. All the pc s use the same
> version of Zone Alarm Pro for the firewalls
>

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