My computer is listed twice in the Network view; network shares are not accessible

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Published on 2011-05-17T20:02:51Z Indexed on 2012/09/04 15:43 UTC
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I have a couple of network shares set up on my Win7 machine. They've been in constant use, from that same machine on which they're set up. One morning they just randomly stopped working:

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When I went looking for what was wrong, I noticed that I also had my PC listed twice in the Network view in Explorer:

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"Sirius" is the name of the PC on which these screenshots were taken.

I may have installed some windows updates around the time this happened. I have since tried rebooting and installing all the latest updates, to no avail. I've also removed the share in question and re-added it, making sure I give all rights to everyone. I'm an administrator on this machine, but I can't access the administrative shares (\\SIRIUS\c$) either, with the same message.

I can access \\localhost\AcronisImages and \\localhost\c$, and I can ping sirius.

Any ideas?

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