Networking Problem (long description of problem)

[James]

Hello all. I am having a problem networking my notebook
and my home computer. I just bought a NetGear router
(WGR614v2) and have seen that both computers are
connected to the router itself but when I made a
workgroup to network, my notebook could not join in the
network. All the procedures needed to set the computers
on the network and router has been done but nothing has
happened on the notebook. On my home computer, it can see
itself on the network but not the notebook. The notebook
cant see anything, when I try to connect to the network,
it brings up something saying "workgroup not accessible.
You may not have permission to use this network resource.
Contact the administrator of this server to find out if
you have access permissions. The list of servers of this
workgroup is not currently available."
Funny thing is is I am the one to have made the network
and I am the administrator. Actually, its not too funny.

If it helps any, my notebook has Windows XP Home while my
home comp has Windows XP Pro.

My e-mail is . Thanks for
all the help.

[Robert L [MS-MVP]]

quoted from http://www.ChicagoTech.net
.... is not accessible

Message: "....is not accessible. You may not have permission to use this
network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if
you have access permissions. Network path was not found."

Resolutions:
1) make sure no any firewall running.
2) make sure you have created the same workgroup, and the same username on
w2k/xp for logging on a remote computer.
3) check user's rights.
4) you may want to enable guest account on w2k/xp.
5) if you are using simple file sharing, you may try to disable it and
re-share the drive manually.
6) if it is mixed OS (win98, NT, ME and W2K/XP) network, enable NetBIOS over
TCP/IP.
7) make sure the Computer Browser service is started if all computers are
w2k/xp.
8) stop Computer Browser service on win9x, ME and NT if this is a mixed OS
network.
9) cache credential by using net use \\computername\share /user:username
command (it is better to have the username logon shared computer).
10) if you have tried enabling netbios over tcp/ip but doesn't work, you may
try to load netbeui (loading netbeui may slow your network).
11) Make sure the server service is running.
12) If you can see the share in Network Neighborhood but not access it, this
issue may be resolved by verifying that both the share permissions and the
NTFS partition permissions are correctly configured for individual user or
group access.
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"James" > wrote in message
...
> Hello all. I am having a problem networking my notebook
> and my home computer. I just bought a NetGear router
> (WGR614v2) and have seen that both computers are
> connected to the router itself but when I made a
> workgroup to network, my notebook could not join in the
> network. All the procedures needed to set the computers
> on the network and router has been done but nothing has
> happened on the notebook. On my home computer, it can see
> itself on the network but not the notebook. The notebook
> cant see anything, when I try to connect to the network,
> it brings up something saying "workgroup not accessible.
> You may not have permission to use this network resource.
> Contact the administrator of this server to find out if
> you have access permissions. The list of servers of this
> workgroup is not currently available."
> Funny thing is is I am the one to have made the network
> and I am the administrator. Actually, its not too funny.
>
> If it helps any, my notebook has Windows XP Home while my
> home comp has Windows XP Pro.
>
> My e-mail is . Thanks for
> all the help.