I used to show all the computers and users on my network, but now my laptop cannot access the network. I checked and the workgroup is the same on all the computers. I can see my desktop, my other laptop, my 2nd desktop on the network, and my laptop. I can access the network from any of the other computers. My username is there when I go to the desktop. Also, for my daughter’s laptop, it shows as “George-PC” on the network, and the desktop shows as “Desktop-PC”…. But my computer on the network does not have “-PC” behind it.

I can access my laptop from the desktop, just not vice versa.

I just copied over a bunch of music to my laptop, was able to view documents and pictures, then suddenly my access was gone and I can’t get onto the desktop. This happened about a week ago - I took the laptop with me to a meeting...worked on some MS Office stuff, didn’t try to connect to any networks or anything… but ever since that day, I can’t access the network. My daughter hasn’t had any problems (the 2nd laptop) but she has never used it anywhere but home. We got these the beginning of January so they are unknown entities to me.

Both laptops are Dell i1545 running Windows 7
The main desktop is Dell 531s running Vista
The other desktop “downstairs” is a very old Dell running XP (and me thinks breathing it’s last!)

Is there a limit to the number of users? Would that affect getting access to the network?!? (Again, my daughter’s laptop isn’t experiencing any of these problems.) I have checked all the settings that I know to look at (which isn’t much!) and don’t know what the difference would be….

Any help is much appreciated. <<Think I will put this on my list of classes to take next semester… Networking 101!!>>