Sorry, this is a long post, but I've somehow lost my ability to connect to remote shares, or even connect to remote systems on a network. When attempting to map a connection, whether by IP address or system name, I get an error saying that the system could not be found (even when I select one of the previous mappings that shows up in the dropdown box that previously worked).

I can browse my local workgroup at work through my network connections, but I can no longer view systems on our domain (to which I am not connected) like I used to. Even when I find a system on our local workgroup, it still tells me that it cannot locate the system when I try to connect to a share. Grrrrr. Systems are visible to me on the network, because I can ping them and my network scanner can detect them and pull down workstation/server information.

I know this is something I've done to myself, due to some reckless tweaking. I've been using the WinGuides tweak manager in the past to play around with settings related to networking (in an attempt to optimize performance) and have also played around with a few manual registry tweaks. Problem is that I didn't notice the problem until the last few days, so I'm not sure of at what point I messed up my MS networking ability.

The strange part is that the persistent connections I created in the past for a couple of shares on my network still work flawlessly. I just can't create new connections...?

And I've ruled out other issues like personal firewall etc., I'm virus free, trojan free and like I said, I was tweaking my registry so I know I was playing with fire...

Anyways, I know I'm going to have to roll-up my sleeves and try and figure out what I did by backtracking, but if anyone has some insight or advice as to where I should check, it would be very greatly appreciated...!

Thanks,
KV