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Can no longer access computer on network - Windows XP?

We have a computer that we can no longer connect to across the network. My account is an administrator on the computer and trying to access anything at all on the computer does not work. \\computername brings nothing up, \\computername\data (a shared directory) doesn't work, and \\computername\c$ doesn't work. Last week, all of these worked.

No new software has been installed, the computer is on the network and can be pinged just fine, the firewall is disabled, file sharing is enabled, like I said, it worked last week and had for over a year before that. We have restarted the computer many times.

I've tried creating a new share as well but, of course since I can't access it at all with \\computername, that doesn't work either.

Anyone have any additional ideas that I can try?

Thanks!

Update:

Thank you for your answers. Responses to them:

Permissions are fine, restore didn't work, IP address is fine

Update 2:

I'm pinging both the name and address on the computer we're trying to access. That computer can access email and other network shares as well.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Did you try restore?

  • 1 decade ago

    Are you pinging via IP address or by host name? Are you on a workgroup or a domain? Check your network DNS server and make sure it has the correct IP address for the host. Try ipconfig /flushdns on another host and then see if you can access the problem host.

  • 1 decade ago

    Pinging is a good thing. Have you check the permissions for the share data? Maybe some one changed them without telling.

  • 1 decade ago

    Is it getting a proper IP from the DHCP server?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    has it been conected to the enternet all the time ? if so it may be a virous.

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