I have an Win2000 and an XP computer in a home network. Connection hardware is my Blitzz router/wireless-access. The WIN2000 is wireless. SOftware is with Microsoft Workgroup. I created the same workgroup on both computers. I made a shared documents folder on the XP machine. The WIN2000 machine was able to access the shared documents folder and the XP's printer for 5 months. Several weeks ago connectivity stopped. Both machines can still get to the internet. The XP can see the WIN2000, and can browse its shared objects. The WIN2000 machine cannot see the XP machine. The previously working icon for the shared document folder returns "... path was not found". When browsing network places, the workgroup only shows the local machine (WIN2000). My firewall programs were configured to trust the local net and/or allow the router's range of IP addresses. BUT I have also disabled both the McAfee firewall and the XP firewall. NO help. I have double checked the workgroup names, and the file and printer sharing settings. I suspect this began after an automatic Windows or McAfee update, but am not certian of the exact day the problem started. I have spent hours on this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I don't start any trouble shooting without revisiting the Network Setup Wizard. It solves many of these irritating problems on the first pass, although I've had to run thru it more than once to get everything working as expected. The floppy step is just a important as any.

Hi - Thanks I did use the wizard on each machine. All it did was reset my workgroup name to WORKGROUP, which I had to reset to my preferred name on each machine. The floppy step does not seem to apply to WIN2000, because when I took the flopy to that machine it told me it was not used for WIN2000. Any other ideas?