Re: One machine missing from network

From: Robert L [MS-MVP] (noreply_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/02/05 

Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 11:21:55 -0600

if you can ping the problem pc but not browse, it could be computer browser
issue. this step by step troubleshooting may help,
http://www.howtonetworking.com/Troubleshooting/notaccessibale0.htm 

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"cormanaz" <cormanaz@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:81B589F8-9331-47A6-8481-ACFB6073E9E2@microsoft.com...
>I had a local network of three XP machines working fine. Now, for no 
>apparent
> reason, one of the machines can't access it. Two of the machines are still
> talking fine. The third can't see or be seen on the network.
>
> On the problem machine when I click "view workgroup computers," I get a 
> long
> pause then the dreaded "you may not have permission" message informing me 
> the
> list of servers for this workgroup is currently unavailable. I've tried 
> all
> the fixes suggested by various net advisers like like renaming machine,
> disabling 1394 connection, manually enabling NetBIOS, unsharing and
> re-sharing folders, etc. Can't find anything interesting in the events 
> logs.
> Firewalls are off.
>
> I can ping the other machines from the problem machine and vice-versa.
> However when I first tried this I couldn't and this is the only possible 
> clue
> I have found. Even though there was %SystemRoot%\system32 in the path, I
> couldn't use Ping or IPCONFIG from any directory (other than
> \windows\system32). So I hard coded \windows\system32 into the path. Ping 
> and
> ipconfig now work from anywhere but no help with the network.
>
> Can anyone suggest further debugging efforts?
>
>

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