Network problems

[Colin Law]

On 27 December 2010 16:33, Bill Stanley <bstanle at wowway.com> wrote:
> ...
> By the way, it has been suggested that I do a reinstall on the affected
> computer... I am getting to that point but not just yet.  You see, I learn
> the most when confronting a problem and I am certainly learning a lot now.
>  When my frustration reaches a certain point, I will reinstall.
>

It might be interesting to boot off a live CD and try the ping test.

For samba did you check that smbfs is installed?

Colin