Re: DNS Problems

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From: Hans-Georg Michna (hans-georgNoEmailPlease_at_michna.com)
Date: 10/08/04 

Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 11:30:10 +0200

On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 18:51:01 -0700, MJS
<MJS@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>i tried:
>-repairing winsock
>-flushing dns
>-uninstall/reinstall TCP/IP
>-resetting catalog with: netsh winsock reset catalog
>-resetting tcp/ip with:netsh int ip reset c:\netsh.txt
>-plus a whole bunch of other stuff that to long to list.
>
>i may be barking up the wrng tree as i don't have a DNS server on my network
>(its a peer-to-peer workgroup). know this and that WINS controls name
>resolution, i considered that maybe the node names just needed time to
>propagate through the network. I left the computers on overnight, but no
>luck.
>
>please, any more ideas?

Mark,

as I see it, you have probably checked at least the first of the
two following checkboxes in http://www.michna.com/kb/wxnet.htm.

>>>
My Network Places

[ ] Computers or shares are missing in My Network Places.

[ ] Workgroup is not accessible. Or I observe one of the
following symptoms.
* I cannot access shares on other computers.
* I cannot locate other computers in the workgroup.
* When I double-click the workgroup in My Network Places, I get
the error message: Workgroup is not accessible. You might not
have permission to use this network resource. Contact the
administrator of this server to find out if you have access
permissions.
* I get the error message: Workgroup is not accessible. The list
of servers for this workgroup is not currently available.
(Instead of the word workgroup the name of your workgroup is
displayed.)
<<<

This means that you have been pointed, among a few others, at
the chapters dealing with the computer browser service. What
were the results of following the advice in these chapters?

Hans-Georg 

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