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One of the PCs in my office glitched the other day. I thought it might be a hard disk error, but it seems not; however, to cure it I had to allow it to re-install Windows.
But that's where the fun started. I just can't get the network back the way it was. This machine can't see the NAS. Other machines can't see this PC and - crucially - the printer attached to it. And so on. I really really hate Windows networking. There are so many things that you an adjust which don't seem to have any effect.
Is there any relatively easy and relatively controllable way of essentially starting from scratch with the network? In other words, putting all the PCs in a state where they think they've never been part of a network, and then building it up in a controlled fashion? (Without having to reinstall Windows on every machine, natch.)
But that's where the fun started. I just can't get the network back the way it was. This machine can't see the NAS. Other machines can't see this PC and - crucially - the printer attached to it. And so on. I really really hate Windows networking. There are so many things that you an adjust which don't seem to have any effect.
Is there any relatively easy and relatively controllable way of essentially starting from scratch with the network? In other words, putting all the PCs in a state where they think they've never been part of a network, and then building it up in a controlled fashion? (Without having to reinstall Windows on every machine, natch.)