Re: Network File Sharing Fails

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From: golfer2 (golfer2_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/05/04 

Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 17:08:02 -0800

Hi once again Chuck,

I hate to belabor this but you got me on LAC. I don't know what that is. I
checked help but nothing showed up Even Google provided nothing useful. I
can problably persue this on my own if I know how to access LAC.

Before going wireless I had both computers networked using the in house phone
lines (HPNA) using ICS for internet access to \\Irma. It turned out to be a
pain because \\Carl had to be on for \\Irma to have internet access. Also,
ICS was very unstable so \\Irma's internet access was hit and miss. For that
reason we decided to go wireles. Judging from what you say, some of those
"browser not active" message could be left overs from HPNA> Thanks again.

Regards,

Carl

"Chuck" wrote:

> On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 14:59:03 -0800, "golfer2" <golfer2@discussions.microsoft.com>
> wrote:
>
> >Hi Chuck,
> >
> >The news is very good. Last night I performed all of the changes you
> >suggested and, and as noted in my last post of 11/03/04 I saw improvements
> >but not yet a complete solution. It was late (after 9:00 PM ET) and I just
> >wanted to get the ipconfig and browstat info you requested posted. That done
> >I just logged off and watched a little TV before bed. When I came home today
> >from my volunteer job at a local hospital I was anxious to see your response
> >to my last 11/03/04 post so I just turned on \\carl and went straight to the
> >forum. After reading your reply I was curious to see how restrictannonymous
> >was set on both computers so I turned on \\irma and found that value set to 0
> >on both -- good. Then while still on \\irma I took a look at My Network
> >places and found that I could see all shared files on both computers and had
> >full access to both. Then I went over to \\carl and had the same glorious
> >result. Also both computers show up in View Workgroup Computers on both
> >system. So it looks like we now have a complete solution. I suppose I would
> >have known that last night if I did a reboot on both but it was late and I
> >was weary. Chuck, thank you very much. I could not have done it without you.
> > Your one in a million and I really appreciate the time you spent with me.
> >By the way, I also reran browstat status on \\irma and it is still a mess
> >with a loth of "browser not active" messages but I'm not going to worry about
> >that as long as I have a working file sharing network and both computers can
> >still access the internet. Thank you very much.
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >Carl
>
> Carl,
>
> That's excellent news. Thanks for letting us know. Sounds like that was just
> the typical browser cataloguing latency that prevented you from seeing
> everything immediately after reboot.
>
> I would bet that the extra transports listed in browstat are previously
> installed network devices - many computers have them, probably few have had the
> opportunity to see them enumerated as in browstat. Apparently, they don't hurt
> anything - as my Dad used to say "Don't hurt the running of it none.".
>
> Cheers,
> Chuck
> Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.
>

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