Aaron wrote:
It's not a problem that I have seen reported before, but there are several possibilities that spring to mind:
Double check the Subnet masks to ensure that both interfaces (wired and wireless) have exactly the same settings. The fault you describe can be caused if the Wireless Subnet mask is different to the other interface and the other machines on the network.
Secondly, try disabling any firewalls, it's possible that connection via the wireless isn't working as a Firewall on one of the machines, or the hadrware one built into the router) is preventing transmission.
The Subnet masks of both the wired and wireless adapters are the same at 255.255.255.0, which matches the rest of the machines on the network.
I've completely un-installed ZoneAlarm firewall and switched off Windows' own firewall.
But to add to the confusion:
After a re-start of the laptop with no ethernet cable plugged in so it is only using the wireless, I start VA. As before, all networking is fine, except for ShareFS (no remote shares are shown, and *ShareFSIcon <name> displays a faded, unmounted icon). In other words all as previously descibed in my first post.
If I then plug in the ethernet cable, after a few seconds the other shares appear, and the shared drive icon (set above with *ShareFSIcon) is mounted.
If I then UN-PLUG the ethernet cable I can still open shared discs, read and write files to the shared discs. Even the ShareFS Discs window is still active, in that changes to remote shares are mirrored when new ones appear or removed.
Therefore this is all happening via wireless and it would suggest to me that subnet masks, firwall settings are not to blame.
Gavin
(who is very baffled over this)