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wayne
June 16th 03, 03:14 PM
I have read many threads in this group and have tried
many things to fix this problem. Below I will list the
things I have tried to fix this problem. Nothing has
worked so far. I was able to map a shared drive by using
IP (\\192.168.1.1\shared) and everyone can access the
internet

I have a workgroup of xp Pro machines and 2 pc's cannot
browse the workgroup or access any shared files. I can
ping the other computers but can not access any
resources.

I receive the following error:

workgroup is not accessible. you might not have
permissions to use this network resource. contact the
administrator of this server to find out if you have
access permission.

The list of servers for this workgroup is not currently
available.

I noticed when the computer was in the MSHOME workgroup
everything worked fine but when I changed the workgroup
name to WORKGROUP is when the problem happened. Only 2
workstations showed this error All the other workstations
have no problems.

Things tried to fix the problem.
1. make sure the firewall is disabled on the network
card.
2. On the WINS tab click enable netbios over TCP/IP
3. in my computer, Tools, folder options, view tab
deselect use simple file sharing
4. the below task supplied by Steve Winograd, MS-MVP
(Windows Networking)

..
Run "ipconfig /all" and look at the "Node Type" at the
beginning of
the output. If it says "Peer-to-Peer", that's probably
the problem.
It means that the computer only uses a WINS server (which
isn't
available in a true peer-to-peer network) for NetBIOS
name resolution.

If that's the case, run the registry editor, open this
key:

HLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Netbt\Parame ters

and delete these values if they're present:

NodeType
DhcpNodeType

Reboot, then try network access again.

If that doesn't fix it, open that registry key again,
create a DWORD
value called "NodeType", and set it to 1 for "Broadcast"
or 4 for
"Mixed".

For details, see the section on "NodeType" in this
Microsoft Knowledge
Base article:

TCP/IP and NBT Configuration Parameters for Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
us;314053

Mike Florence
June 18th 03, 07:26 AM
I am having the same issue. It was working fine. Then one, none of my
computers can access the group.


"wayne" > wrote in message
...
> I have read many threads in this group and have tried
> many things to fix this problem. Below I will list the
> things I have tried to fix this problem. Nothing has
> worked so far. I was able to map a shared drive by using
> IP (\\192.168.1.1\shared) and everyone can access the
> internet
>
> I have a workgroup of xp Pro machines and 2 pc's cannot
> browse the workgroup or access any shared files. I can
> ping the other computers but can not access any
> resources.
>
> I receive the following error:
>
> workgroup is not accessible. you might not have
> permissions to use this network resource. contact the
> administrator of this server to find out if you have
> access permission.
>
> The list of servers for this workgroup is not currently
> available.
>
> I noticed when the computer was in the MSHOME workgroup
> everything worked fine but when I changed the workgroup
> name to WORKGROUP is when the problem happened. Only 2
> workstations showed this error All the other workstations
> have no problems.
>
> Things tried to fix the problem.
> 1. make sure the firewall is disabled on the network
> card.
> 2. On the WINS tab click enable netbios over TCP/IP
> 3. in my computer, Tools, folder options, view tab
> deselect use simple file sharing
> 4. the below task supplied by Steve Winograd, MS-MVP
> (Windows Networking)
>
> .
> Run "ipconfig /all" and look at the "Node Type" at the
> beginning of
> the output. If it says "Peer-to-Peer", that's probably
> the problem.
> It means that the computer only uses a WINS server (which
> isn't
> available in a true peer-to-peer network) for NetBIOS
> name resolution.
>
> If that's the case, run the registry editor, open this
> key:
>
> HLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Netbt\Parame ters
>
> and delete these values if they're present:
>
> NodeType
> DhcpNodeType
>
> Reboot, then try network access again.
>
> If that doesn't fix it, open that registry key again,
> create a DWORD
> value called "NodeType", and set it to 1 for "Broadcast"
> or 4 for
> "Mixed".
>
> For details, see the section on "NodeType" in this
> Microsoft Knowledge
> Base article:
>
> TCP/IP and NBT Configuration Parameters for Windows XP
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
> us;314053
>

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