Cannot see local network

[Michael Walter]

I have been searching for days to a solution to this. I
have a laptop running XP pro and I am connected to SMC
7004AWBR wireless router. With my old laptop (also XP
pro), everything works fine...I can see the internet and
the local network and resources. However, with the new
laptop, I can't see the local network. I have sat both
laptops, side by side, and made sure all the settings
were the same for the network, including no firewall,
tcp/ip...everything. Any clues?

[Robert L [MS-MVP]]

can you ping each other by name? also make sure no firewall running on the
LAN connection.

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"Michael Walter" > wrote in message
...
> I have been searching for days to a solution to this. I
> have a laptop running XP pro and I am connected to SMC
> 7004AWBR wireless router. With my old laptop (also XP
> pro), everything works fine...I can see the internet and
> the local network and resources. However, with the new
> laptop, I can't see the local network. I have sat both
> laptops, side by side, and made sure all the settings
> were the same for the network, including no firewall,
> tcp/ip...everything. Any clues?