Re: The tale of three computers

From: Bogdan Giusca (giusca_at_gmail.com)
Date: 12/28/04 

Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 12:04:59 -0800

Steve Winograd [MVP] wrote:

> If another firewall program (Norton, PC-cillin, ZoneAlarm, Sygate,
> eTrust, McAfee, etc) is installed, configure it to allow file and
> printer sharing on the LAN.

I have ZoneAlarm installed and configured the local network as "safe
zone.

> Since accessing #1 by IP address works and accessing it by computer
> name doesn't, the problem probably involves NetBIOS. On all three
> computers:
>
> 1. Make sure that NetBIOS over TCP/IP is enabled:
>
> a. Open the Network Connections folder.
> b. Right click the LAN connection and click Properties.
> c. Double click Internet Protocol (TCP/IP).
> d. Click Advanced.
> e. Click WINS.
> f. Click the Enable NetBIOS Over TCP/IP button.

NetBIOS was disabled, I enabled on #1 and #2, restarted them, with no
change.

> 2. Run "ipconfig /all" and look at the "Node Type" at the beginning of
> the output. If it says "Peer-to-Peer" (which should actually be
> "Point-to-Point") that's the problem.

#1 "unknown"
#2 "hybrid"

> It means that the computer only uses a WINS server, which isn't
> available on a peer-to-peer network, for NetBIOS name resolution.
>
> If that's the case, run the registry editor, open this key:
>
> HLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Netbt\Parameters
>
> and delete these values if they're present:
>
> NodeType
> DhcpNodeType

They're not present.