Re: 3 Windows 2000 Pro computers, 1 Netgear router, can't detect printer

Were these computers part of a domain before? If so they will probably need
to be removed from the domain and put in a workgroup.

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"ADAMWebDesign" <ADAMWebDesign.1s720s@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:ADAMWebDesign.1s720s@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Hi there,
>
> I hate to make my first post a question since it cheats the whole forum
> concept IMHO, but this one's of a somewhat urgent nature, so I thought
> I'd fire it out first and then go answer someone else's query.
>
> I'm trying desperately to bandaid a network together for a client out
> of three Windows 2000 Professional machines in a peer-to-peer
> networking configuration, all plugged into a Netgear switch (the
> FS516...a bunch of their machines all died at once today).
>
> I got them all hooked up, and by installing Bell Business High-Speed
> Access Manager (blech!) on each machine was able to get the Internet
> going on each machine.
>
> The problem came when I tried to configure one of them as a print
> server. I set up the share on the print server itself, and I assigned
> each machine its own IP manually (192.168.1.1-3, with 1 being the print
> server itself), and they all see each other on the network (in other
> words, if I search for computers on the network, I see all three
> machines). I can also ping each machine by hostname from the other two.
>
>
> But when I try to browse to the print server, I get:
>
> There are currently no logon servers avaliable to service the logon
> request.
>
> I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, since networking really isn't a
> specialty of mine (to be perfectly honest, half the time it just pisses
> me off). I have a feeling I should be doing SOMETHING with WINS, but I
> can't quite get my head around what exactly WINS does other than
> assigning machine names to IP addresses and what it is exactly I should
> be doing with it.
>
> Or is there another service that's supposed to be active that I'm not
> even seeing?


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