Re: XP Home SP2 and 4 Computers

On Wed, 30 May 2007 10:50:01 -0700, SQL Brad <SQLBrad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Hello,

I have 4 Windows XP Home, SP2 running in a small office, all hooked up to
the same network, and Netgear router. 3 of the 4 PC's see each other on the
network, however they don't all see the 4th. All 4 workers have set up
various shared drives on their local machines to be shared by all 4 people.
I've already verified the following:

1. Windows Firewall is completely turned off
2. they all have IP's similar to 192.168.1.x and 255.255.255.0
3. they are all part of same workgroup
4. They only have Norton A/V, nothing else turned on like System Works,
Personal Firewall, Internet Security, etc.

I can't figure out what is preventing the 4th computer from being seen.

thanks in advance for your help.

Visibility (or lack of) is usually a personal firewall or NetBT setting
inconsistency issue.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2006/07/advanced-windows-networking-using.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2006/07/advanced-windows-networking-using.html

There are a few other possibilities though.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/10/irregularities-in-workgroup-visibility.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/10/irregularities-in-workgroup-visibility.html

Take a look at the logs from "browstat status" and "ipconfig /all", from each
computer, so we can diagnose the problem. Read this article, and linked
articles, and follow instructions precisely (download browstat!):
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/troubleshooting-network-neighborhood.html#AskingForHelp>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/troubleshooting-network-neighborhood.html#AskingForHelp

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Cheers,
Chuck, MS-MVP [Windows - Networking]
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/
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