I get this quite often. The PC can always see the laptop and printer but the laptop sometimes fails to see the PC. The really weird bit is that I have bypassed this nuisance by mapping the Kinetic folder on the PC to Drive S on the laptop and this ALWAYS shows up even when the laptop can't see the PC on the network. bones bones@xxxxxxx From: jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Frank Turley Sent: 04 April 2010 19:57 To: JHB List Subject: [jhb] Network Mystery I thought I would consult the gurus on this list to explain something that has me baffled. I run a small network here, connected via a Netgear router which connects all machines to each other and to the internet. I use my old Athlon machine running XP Home for e-mail and downloads, and my Vista 32 bit machine for FSX. When I download a file for FSX I save it on my Athlon machine, to a shared directory. From my Vista machine I access the appropriate folder on the Athlon and copy the file across to the Vista machine. All makes sense so far. Now for the mystery. Normally, when I select Network from my Vista menu, it brings up a folder, and listed in the folder are my machines plus the router. Sometimes, however, it doesn't seem to find the other machines, I just see the router listed. What makes it more mysterious, is that if I then select Network and Sharing Centre form the network screen, and then click on View Full Map, I can then see the other machines, so Vista is obviously detecting their existence. Anyone seen anything like this? Is there a cure? Frank T.