avdven,
It SEEMS to be completely random.
The only comonality I find between the different instances is that I have at least two of the machines up and online.
My network isnt wireless, it's good old-fashioned cat5 and NICs.
The wireles zero configurator is set to auto.
And you're right about the requirements, all you need for ICS or (Winnetworking at all really)
is tcp/ip and one of the file sharing clients.
I'm guessing this has got to be some 'arcane baseball' crap that one person in the universe actually knows how to deal with.