Re: Problem with a XP PC on a workgroup

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From: SlowJet (SlowJet_at_noTY2this.com)
Date: 10/15/04 

Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 03:05:59 GMT

Joe, :)

I thoht your detailed speach was absolutely GREAT.
I can now say without thinking much, just what Colin said, Workgroups
operate differently than users on a Domain controllor.

And the next details are,
do you have all the users on the clients that share,
what security model are you using,

and as Colin said, you need to run the network wizzard on ALL workgroup
computers.

The devil is in the details. :)

SJ
"Joe Bucar" <jbucar@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:OevnxejsEHA.3336@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Hello,
> I have a client that has a workgroup for a network that is using a server
> with Windows 2000 Professional. This network has 8 PC's attached to it
> and
> 7 are Windows XP Pro and 1 is Windows 98. The devices are connected
> together on a Netgear DS524 Hub and to the Internet via a D-Link router.
> The
> problem is I have is one PC with XP Pro that was on the network at one
> time
> but can not access it now. This PC can still access the Internet so I can
> eliminate the NIC card and the CAT-5 cable. On the server when I do a
> "Net
> View" I can see the PC. When I go through Explore I can see the PC but
> when
> I click on it I get the following message:"\\XPGene1 is not Accessible".
> At
> the PC side of the problem when I go through Explore I can see the
> Workgroup
> but when I click on the workgroup icon I get the following message:
> "Workgroup1 is not accessible. You might not have the permission to use
> this
> network resource". I believe I have tried just about every possible
> combination to get this device to work. Here are the things that I have
> tried. The PC had XPSP2 applied to it and I removed it. I have re-booted
> the server thinking that the browser election some how was corrupted. I
> have reset the switch. I have uninstalled the network card and then
> re-installed the network card and ran the network wizard on the XP PC. I
> have added a new user on the server with administrative privileges and
> used
> him on the PC. I have renamed the PC. The users have said that this
> problem with this PC has been happening for a couple of months and
> sometimes
> it would be on the network and sometimes it would not be on the network,
> Currently the PC has not been on the network for a couple of weeks. Also
> during this time the PC was infected with a virus that was cleaned off.
> Anybody have any ideas on how to solve this problem short of re-loading
> the
> OS?
> Thank You,
>
> Joe
>
>

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