Re: Not seeing workgroup resources

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From: John (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/27/04 

Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 12:20:48 -0800

 have a wireless home network of five PCs/laptops all
running XP Home. Additionally there is a wireless print
server. I set up a workgroup with no difficulty and it
had been running for a month when all of a sudden I am
unable to access other computers on my network /
workgroup and I get the following message: "....is not
accessible. You may not have permission to use this
network resource. Contact the administrator of this
server to find out if you have access permissions.
Network path was not found." In the meantime the wireless
print server continues to work.

I have noted the recommended actions to fix and intend to
implement. However what I do not understand is why this
should arise when everything had been working so well. Is
there a possibility of a virus or software conflict?
Recent software installed has been PC Synch and Sony
Sonic Stage.

>-----Original Message-----
>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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