Re: Cannot view network computers

See the advice in message 6 and 8 (tree view of the link I pasted in
below) that a gentleman named Chuck gave me in a more recent thread I
started called, "Unable to open *View Workgroup Computers* nor access
workgroup."

Basically I turned/toggled off all of my firewalls (I had both Windows
and a Norton Security Personal Firewall turned on on one of the PC's),
and only turned back on the Windows Firewalls on all computers.

I took his advice and really read through the links he suggested, even
though most did not apply to my situation, as it helped me step back
and review my set-up more carefully.

Hope this helps...

--jinnii

See this link:
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.network_web/browse_thread/thread/f381d5a316322c8c?hl=en

On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 12:01:03 -0700, MisterMasters
<MisterMasters@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I've been experiencing the same problems and have been watching this thread
for a resolution - tell me, what did you do to your firewall to get it to
work???

Thanks!

"jinnii" wrote:

Followup:

After perusing several links recommended to me in another post, it
appears it was a firewall issue and our network is up and running
beautifully!

Thanks...

jinnii


http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.network_web/browse_frm/thread/f381d5a316322c8c/b761d75f62378d8f?hl=en#b761d75f62378d8f


jinnii wrote:
Do you have any suggestions as to what I should do now to be able to
access the laptop and vise versa? As it stands, I still can't see
anything in the workgroup (still get the messwage [Workgroup] not
accessible).

Thank you...

jinnii


jinnii wrote:
Hi Jim,

Not sure if you need this info but I reinstalled the d-link wireless
connection utility on the laptop and unchecked WZC, and can now ping
the laptop from the PC but not itself, and from the laptop I can now
ping itself but not the PC.

ipconfig /all results from wired PC: (do you also need the results from
the laptop?)

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Mom>ipconfig /all

Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : Kmainpc
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : hsd1.pa.comcast.net.

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : hsd1.pa.comcast.net.
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) PRO/100 VE Network
Connecti
on
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-15-F2-09-19-81
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.101
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 68.87.75.194
68.87.64.146
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Thursday, September 14,
2006 9:23:49
AM
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Friday, September 15, 2006
9:23:49 A
M

C:\Documents and Settings\Mom>



Jim wrote:
"jinnii" <jinnii@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1158178464.378257.208160@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
...and the router is the Linksys WRT54G Wireless Broadband Router.

A new development: I now can't ping the PC from itself; I get the timed
out message. I can run the ipconfig /all command successfully.
Ping is a network command. Ipconfig is not; thus being able to use ipconfig
doesn't prove that your internet is setup correctly. Perhaps you have
disabled ICMP packets. Please post the results of ipcongig/all.
Jim

jinnii wrote:
Hi jmwills...

The laptops are all wireless, and I am using Linksys DWL 650+ cardbus
adapters in them. We are not utilizing the "G" capability of our new
router yet.

jmwills wrote:
Are the laptops wires or wireless and what are you using to manage the
connections if wireless?
--
MCP (2K) Net+, A+
Server-Networking MVP


"jinnii" wrote:

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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