Re: I can nolonger see the other PCs on my Home Network

From: Chuck (none_at_example.net)
Date: 08/29/04 

Date: 28 Aug 2004 21:35:07 -0500

On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 16:37:02 -0700, Bay View Guy
<BayViewGuy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I have a simple home network consisting of 4 Desk Top computers. I’ll call
>them DT1, DT2, DT3, and DT4. DT1 and DT2 are hard wired to my Netgear
>cable/router gateway (model RP614) and DT3 and DT4 are wireless and are
>talking to my netgear wireless access point (model WG602 which is connected
>to cable/router gateway). I have a broadband internet connection and all PCs
>have access.
>
>OS overview:
>DT1 WinXP Pro SP2 (my PC) w/Trend Micro internet securty
>DT2 WinXP home SP2 (I use DT2 for a music server and file back-ups) w/Trend
>Micro internet securty
>DT3 WinXP home SP1 (daughter #1) w/Trend Micro internet securty
>DT4 WinXP home SP1 (daughter #2) w/Trend Micro internet securty
>
>
>I’ve been using this arrangement for about 1 year with no problems. This
>last week I installed SP2 on DT1 and DT2, after the install all seemed well
>until I attempted to browse the other computers on the network. I can no
>longer can see the other PCs,but I can still access directories on DT2 that
>I had mapped prior to the SP2 install. I read some of the other posts so I
>ran ipconfig (see below) on all the PCs to help (I hope) diagnosis of my
>problem. PCs are on the same workgroup. If anyone has a idea I’d love to
>hear it.

<SNIP IPConfig Listings>

Guy,

IPConfig listings look normal.

Can you "see" shares between DT1 and DT2? And between DT3 and DT4? Re "see" -
are you talking about Network Neighborhood? And Network Neighborhood - Entire
Network - Microsoft Windows Network?

Let's see what your browser situation is.

Make sure the browser service is running on each computer. Control Panel -
Administrative Tools - Services. Verify that the Computer Browser service is
started.

The Microsoft Browstat program will show us what browsers you have in your
domain / workgroup, at any time.
<http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=188305>

You can download Browstat from:
<http://www.dynawell.com/reskit/microsoft/win2000/browstat.zip>
<http://rescomp.stanford.edu/staff/manual/rcc/tools/browstat.zip>

Browstat is very small (40K), needs no install, and runs from the command
prompt. Just drop it onto a couple workstations, and run it.

Please provide browstat information for each computer.
Start - Run - "cmd". Type "browstat status >c:\browstat.txt" into the command
window - Open c:\browstat.txt in Notepad, copy and paste into your next post.

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

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