Hi guys, hoping someone might be able to work out or google up something I've missed on this one:
There's a small group of analysts at work who work on sensitive data. They have separate analysis machines that are kept off the main work network, but they need to share data between themselves so they have a private network. All the machines use static IP addresses that I've assigned. To make the process of setting up sharing easier, I decided to just join all the computers in a homegroup - they're all Windows 7, so that seemed the easiest option. And for all but one of the computers, it is - they can see each other, share files around, no problem.
So, that one PC. All the others can see it in the homegroup and copy files to and from it. But it can only intermittently see other members of the homegroup - most often it can't see any of them, but just occasionally one pops up, then disappears. There doesn't seem to be any pattern to this. Obviously, this makes life very difficult for the person working on that machine, because they're not able to share files freely themself: they have to get someone else to copy the files around for them.
Any thoughts on what could cause that?


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