network issue, some computers not seeing others

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Kilack

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#90925 3-Oct-2011 16:39

I don't believe I have made any changes to my network but now my computers that use wireless are unable to see other computers on the network.

Well by IP they can but not by hostname so shares that used to work have stopped.
Once I access the ip of the machine then the names start working etc...

It has happened to all machines that use wireless so I guess it can't be a setting that has changed in all the computers. These are a mix of win 7 and xp machines.
The network exploration in win 7 wont find anything have checked all those settings.

Computers on the wired network can see everything including the computers on the wireless network...

PC's on the wireless are a max of static and dhcp...they connect via a wireless AP that is in just AP mode.

any ideas ?

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#528620 3-Oct-2011 16:51

If IP is working but hostname is not, then you have a DNS problem. Make sure your router is handling DNS properly and that your machines are pointing to the router as the DNS server.

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#528636 3-Oct-2011 17:30

gehenna: If IP is working but hostname is not, then you have a DNS problem. Make sure your router is handling DNS properly and that your machines are pointing to the router as the DNS server.

Yeah I don't think that can be it, have checked dns settings, they havent changed nor do I think its related.
Even though the DNS is not aware of these machines, it never has been.

The windows machines had got their hostnames from the network discovery but for some reason that is failing on all the machines running over wireless now....move the same machine onto a wired network, discovery works and so does the shares with hostname even though dns settings are identical.

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#528649 3-Oct-2011 18:12

Should have done it straight away, reboot of the AP fixed it all.
Very weird..