Re: Not seeing workgroup resources

From: Chuck (none_at_example.net)
Date: 03/27/04 

Date: 27 Mar 2004 11:20:11 -0600

On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 08:00:59 -0800, "Lon Davis"
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I have been trying to setup a simple workgroup for a friend
>using two gateway computers (tower direct cable to DLink
>wireless router and a gateway laptop wireless PC card
>Dlink). The internet browsing works fine and the router is
>sharing the cable modem connection for internet work. I
>have setup the two machines using the networking wizard
>created two station names, and a workgroup name, the Dhcp,
>gateway, and DNS parameters have been set on both stations
>but when I go to view workgroup resources the tower shows
>both nodes on the workgroup but only the resources for
>itself and just the station name for the laptop, the laptop
>does not show either node names nor its own resources being
>shared. Sharing has been enabled for the whole C: drive on
>both machines and their printers respectively. I get the
>error message "workgroup Name is not accessble. You may
>not have permission to use this network resource" Users on
>both machines have administrator priveleges. I have set
>Netbios to work over the TCP/IP connectioin and restarted
>the Computer Browser Service as per the Knowledge base
>article 318030.
>
>Is XP Home the op. sys. of both machines that finicky.
>Does anyone have some feedback on this issue?

Lon,

Is either computer running ICF or any third party software firewall? If so, set
it to allow file and printer sharing by opening the following ports. TCP 139,
445; UDP 137, 138, 445. If you can't do that, then un install the firewall.

Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.

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