Re: Cannot view network computers

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In addition, I can ping the laptop from the PC successfully, but when I
try to ping the PC from the laptop it gets a Ping Timed out message.

jinnii wrote:
Good day,

I seem to be in a bit of a rut and would greatly appreciate some help
getting things working again.

Relative history:

We have a family network using a Linksys WRT54G, with one wired PC
(Main - WinXP Pro), 4 laptops (two running WinXP, one 2000 and one ME),
and a printer on a Lynksys PSUS4 printserver. (For this issue I will
only address our main PC and one of the WinXP laptops).

All computers were able to see/share and print just fine until I
upgraded our old Linksys DI-614+ broadband router with the newer
Linksys WRT54G. We did not change our workgroup name nor any printer
names.

After getting the WRT54G configured, and a bit of fine-tuning of the
printer/printserver (I had to add a port to the port tab under the
printer properties on the PC), I've discovered that I can no longer
view anything after clicking on the "View workgroup computers" link
from the main PC (I get the error message, "[Workgroupname] is not
accessible. You might not have permission... Contact the
administrator... The list of servers for this workgroup is not
available."

From my laptop, I am however able to at least see the workgroup listed
after clicking on the "View workgroup computers" link, but I get the
same message as above after clicking on the workgroup icon.

Both computers can successfully browse the 'net and print. I am the
administrator on both.

Could someone please help me with this problem?

Many thanks in advance,

jinnii

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