Re: Networking issue

Herbert Eppel wrote:

On 05.02.2008 14:47 UK Time, John John wrote:

It could be caused by a firewall, that is easy to verify by temporarily disabling the firewalls. If the firewall is not at cause this is most likely a Browser problem, verify that the Browser service is running on the computer that has the Master Browser duties. When the computer that is responsible for the Master Browser duties is shutdown you have another computer (the Backup Browser) that is supposed to take over the Master Browser duties, verify that one of your machines has the Backup Browser role. To find the problem you may need to enable the Browser Service on all the machines then look in the Event Viewer logs for possible errors.


Hi

Thanks for your reply.

I temporarily disabled the XP firewall and Kaspersky, but the problem persists.

In case it helps diagnosing the problem here is a screenshot of the error message I get when I try and expand the Workgroup folder:
<http://www.HerbEppel.de/Screenshots/Networking_problem.png>

I'm not familiar with the Browser Service you mentioned, and I can't find anything in the Windows online help - do you have any further pointers?

Go in the Services management console (enter services.msc in the Run box) and check that the Computer Browser service is started. You can also start the the Browser service at a command prompt by issuing:

net start browser

Check it one machine at a time, you may have to start it on all machines to get to the root of the problem, look in the Event log for errors.

John
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