Not seeing shared folders

Today after a brief pwr outage i lost the abilty to connect to any of my shared windows drives from the WD Live box it searches and sees nothing it also had a heck of a time connecting to the network .I did also just add a windows 7 laptop media server and it can see it just fine but I want to only use my XP box .I know this may be confusing ( sorry) . Even if I turn off the laptop the WD box would still try to connect to it and I couldnt clear the settings in the WD so i reset it .now its not seeing the windows 7 box but still wont see my windows shares just sits there at select content source spinning away ???

Please help thank you in advance

Hast the WDTV been given a static IP? It’s possible your router is sending answering packets to the old adress from before the outage.

Actually while pulling out my hair i went thru the network settings again ands found that it dumped the workgroup name.Wierd as as it could still see my laptop.  Thanks for your help:laughing: