Re: Network File Sharing

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ugh...

so I enabled NetBIOS over TCP/IP as everything Chuck's papers suggested...
and I'm totally hosed again...

None of the computers can see any of the other computers...

And none of my IPCONFIG report results match anything that Chucks show...

I enabled NetBT, and I guess I should see NetBIOS settings in a IPCONFIG
/all but I now see "Wins Proxy" not enabled...

where is my NetBIOS report in IPCONFIG??

Any why did NetBIOS kill all my communication between machines??

I am so hosed...

"Chuck [MVP]" wrote:

On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:21:02 -0700, Brian Lynn
<BrianLynn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have 10 PCs networked together... I have assigned static IPs to each PC and
named them all "pcone" to "pcten" and put them all on a network called
"hotel"...

I have shared a folder on each computer and given full control to any user.

On 9 of my computers everything works fine... I can add the other 9
computers shared folders and read/write to them.

One of my computers can't see the other 9 computers when I go to add a new
network place under My Network Places... I click through the wizard and get
to the "Browse for Folder" tree window. Under my networks name on all the
other 9 computers there is 10 machines listed, on this computer only 1 is
listed... itself!

So I can't add the shared folders of the other 9 PCs on this one machine,
but I can add this machines shared folder on the other 9!

Help! This is normally a very simple setup... I've checked everything I can
think of and all the settings are the same between machines. I can ping them
all...

Thanks!

What you have here is likely a master browser (and I am not discussing Internet
Explorer) conflict. Let's look at logs from "browstat status" and "ipconfig
/all", from the problem computer and 2 other computers, so we can diagnose the
problem. Read this article, and linked articles, and follow instructions
precisely (download browstat!):
<http://networking.nitecruzr.net/2005/05/troubleshooting-network-neighborhood.html#AskingForHelp>
http://networking.nitecruzr.net/2005/05/troubleshooting-network-neighborhood.html#AskingForHelp

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Cheers,
Chuck, MS-MVP 2005-2008 [Windows - Desktop Experience]
http://networking.nitecruzr.net/

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