Can't See My Hdd Or Dvd Rom

[jbrain]

My operating system is Windows 7 ultimate x64,and I have 1 hdd with 2 partitions and 2 dvd-roms connected to it.

So when I click on" My computer ", it will show my hdd's, my dvd drives and my network as I'm connected to a home network.I include a picture of the normal situation.

I'm currently setting up a server with Windows Home Server V1 as operating system.

Now when the server is active and connected to the network, I get an almost empty page when I click on " My computer ", as shown in the second picture.

The server works normal and I can log into the server through Home server console or remote desktop. When I go to any of the shared folders on my server, it will open the window and from there I can navigate to my harddisk or dvd drives on my computer, but I don't think it is supposed that I need to log into my server to get into my computer.

When i open network and sharing center on my Windows 7 computer and then click on network,it will show all the connected computers but at the left side where it normally should show the same items as my computer again stay incomplete.

I have ran the network troubleshooter from my computer but the only thing I could get is that my system time is different from my current location ???

Any suggestions?

When I unplug the lan cable from my server, everything returns to normal.

[jbrain]

Just to add that I found a way around right now, however I think it isn't supposed to be like that.

When my server is connected and I click on computer on the left in the empty window as shown in my previous post, nothing will happen other then that the title bar will show that it is searching for contents which will never complete.

However when I right click on computer and choose to" open in new window " , the new window will popup exactly as how it should be with everything visible.

[NeverSure]

I don't know. What is your W7 hardware, exactly? Is this a mouse, a trackball/touchball... ?? My pea brain is going to mouse driver first, for some reason. Obviously if you can swap mouseseses. If you can't see if there's an updated driver. ??

This doesn't strike me as a server permissions issue since it will work one way but not the other. But then, what would I know, LOL.

I'm probably totally wrong here, and admit to a wild eggs guess, but I can't get past mouse driver until that's eliminated. If it's something like a laptop have you tried, or will it except, a regular USB or PS2 mouse for a test?

(Slinks slowly toward the door...)

[jbrain]

I don't understand what a mouse driver has to do with it.

The tab opens but keeps loading.

[NeverSure]

Well, over the years I decided to always try the easiest and quickest thing first, and also if I couldn't think of anything else, try what I could think of. Process of elimination.

Yes, a driver can give you partial completion of a task. I admit that's probably not it, but I would eliminate it. I would eliminate everything I could think of, as I thought of it, quickest and easiest things first.

I would really like to know about this hardware. What I'm thinking as my feeble mind wanders, is bluetooth interference by the server if your mouse is wireless, driver conflicts, and more. For instance if this is bluetooth, I'd turn it off, disable it in device manager, and use a wired mouse. If it's trackball/touchpad and I could, I'd disable it and try a USB or PS2 if I could.

When connected to the server, are you accessing any files on the server with your W7 box? If so, does the mouse act up then?

Please help me out a little here. This will be found one step at a time.

NeverSure,

MCSE/MCSA, ComTia A+, Network +, Project + Retired VP IT, and years of hard knocks teaching to never be sure.

[jbrain]

Well, over the years I decided to always try the easiest and quickest thing first, and also if I couldn't think of anything else, try what I could think of. Process of elimination.

Yes, a driver can give you partial completion of a task. I admit that's probably not it, but I would eliminate it. I would eliminate everything I could think of, as I thought of it, quickest and easiest things first.

I would really like to know about this hardware. What I'm thinking as my feeble mind wanders, is bluetooth interference by the server if your mouse is wireless, driver conflicts, and more. For instance if this is bluetooth, I'd turn it off, disable it in device manager, and use a wired mouse. If it's trackball/touchpad and I could, I'd disable it and try a USB or PS2 if I could.

When connected to the server, are you accessing any files on the server with your W7 box? If so, does the mouse act up then?

Please help me out a little here. This will be found one step at a time.

NeverSure,

MCSE/MCSA, ComTia A+, Network +, Project + Retired VP IT, and years of hard knocks teaching to never be sure.

Sorry but i don't understand where you're going.

My mouse and keyboard are indeed wireless.

My server is connected to my wired home network.

When i start the server there is no issue, it is only after maybe half an hour that the issue shows.I can open the page, but it keeps loading.

As I said in my second post, when i make the choice to open in a new window the issue dissapears.

After making this choice once the tab will open as normal.

[NeverSure]

OK, what we do apparently know is that the client works fine unless connected to the server. Remove the server and everything is good. Right so far? Connecting to the server alone has caused the problem? I'm checking my understanding here.

Is this a portable computer that you take near the server to connect, or do both the server and client stay in the same location all of the time and the client acts up? Help me out.

The server could be interfering with the IR on an IR mouse, the bluetooth on a bluetooth mouse, and all could be coming in on a cat 5 cable. Especially a damaged (kinked or somewhat smashed at some time) cat 5 cable can generate EMI.) Or it could be EMI "in the air" from the server somehow.

You say server "connected to the network." Is that wired, wireless, server always on, client always in same location... ?? The problem is local to the client, it's the mouse, the server affects it... It would really help to "see" what all of this is.

If you want to help out, discuss your topology, locations, hardware types, etc. and let's chase this, OK?

[NeverSure]

Well, over the years I decided to always try the easiest and quickest thing first, and also if I couldn't think of anything else, try what I could think of. Process of elimination.

Yes, a driver can give you partial completion of a task. I admit that's probably not it, but I would eliminate it. I would eliminate everything I could think of, as I thought of it, quickest and easiest things first.

I would really like to know about this hardware. What I'm thinking as my feeble mind wanders, is bluetooth interference by the server if your mouse is wireless, driver conflicts, and more. For instance if this is bluetooth, I'd turn it off, disable it in device manager, and use a wired mouse. If it's trackball/touchpad and I could, I'd disable it and try a USB or PS2 if I could.

When connected to the server, are you accessing any files on the server with your W7 box? If so, does the mouse act up then?

Please help me out a little here. This will be found one step at a time.

NeverSure,

MCSE/MCSA, ComTia A+, Network +, Project + Retired VP IT, and years of hard knocks teaching to never be sure.

Sorry but i don't understand where you're going.

My mouse and keyboard are indeed wireless.

My server is connected to my wired home network.

When i start the server there is no issue, it is only after maybe half an hour that the issue shows.I can open the page, but it keeps loading.

As I said in my second post, when i make the choice to open in a new window the issue dissapears.

After making this choice once the tab will open as normal.

OK, I was typing as you posted this. You have a mouse problem with the client. It is wireless. Replace the Dimn thing with a wired. If the wired is IR and it doesn't help, us an older conventional ball mouse. If that doesn't help, replace the cat 5 cable from the server. If that doesn't help, reinstall the mouse driver for the wired mouse. Choose your own order of doing those, based on which is available and which is easiest first.

[jbrain]

Well, over the years I decided to always try the easiest and quickest thing first, and also if I couldn't think of anything else, try what I could think of. Process of elimination.

Yes, a driver can give you partial completion of a task. I admit that's probably not it, but I would eliminate it. I would eliminate everything I could think of, as I thought of it, quickest and easiest things first.

I would really like to know about this hardware. What I'm thinking as my feeble mind wanders, is bluetooth interference by the server if your mouse is wireless, driver conflicts, and more. For instance if this is bluetooth, I'd turn it off, disable it in device manager, and use a wired mouse. If it's trackball/touchpad and I could, I'd disable it and try a USB or PS2 if I could.

When connected to the server, are you accessing any files on the server with your W7 box? If so, does the mouse act up then?

Please help me out a little here. This will be found one step at a time.

NeverSure,

MCSE/MCSA, ComTia A+, Network +, Project + Retired VP IT, and years of hard knocks teaching to never be sure.

Sorry but i don't understand where you're going.

My mouse and keyboard are indeed wireless.

My server is connected to my wired home network.

When i start the server there is no issue, it is only after maybe half an hour that the issue shows.I can open the page, but it keeps loading.

As I said in my second post, when i make the choice to open in a new window the issue dissapears.

After making this choice once the tab will open as normal.

OK, I was typing as you posted this. You have a mouse problem with the client. It is wireless. Replace the Dimn thing with a wired. If the wired is IR and it doesn't help, us an older conventional ball mouse. If that doesn't help, replace the cat 5 cable from the server. If that doesn't help, reinstall the mouse driver for the wired mouse. Choose your own order of doing those, based on which is available and which is easiest first.

I don't have a mouse problem.

I try to access pages on my computer, not my server, and I can access those pages but they simply keep loading forever.Look at the second image I uploaded. you will notice that the tab will open but fails to load.

What you can't see in the image is that the title bar will show a moving green bar indicating tha it's searching for contents.

[NeverSure]

Now, in none of the above do I believe that something's wrong with the client. I don't even know what or where the client is. The variable is (maybe) moving the client near the server or maybe just connecting it. The server is causing the problem but we need to find out what that is. Is it a simple driver conflict, EMI to bluetooth or IR, a bad cat 5 cable...

See where I'm going here? Something's wrong with the server's hardware or software or the cat 5, and it's affecting the client. We need to know what part of the client is affected. Software as in driver, or hardware as in wired or wireless? Is the affect through software or hardware...??

[NeverSure]

I don't have a mouse problem.

I try to access pages on my computer, not my server, and I can access those pages but they simply keep loading forever.Look at the second image I uploaded. you will notice that the tab will open but fails to load.

What you can't see in the image is that the title bar will show a moving green bar indicating tha it's searching for contents.

I quit. You don't have a mouse problem. Yet right-click and left-click on a wireless mouse give different results. Only when connected to your server. It may be the server or the cat 5 that's the root cause, but I have no clue how you can think something isn't causing a mouse problem.

Bye.