unable to "see" pc's in network neighborhood

I have 2 PC's wireless networked, one sharing connection to net. Both can
browse and ping each other, but when I try to share a printer or add one to
the others network neighborhood, neither show up as available. All sharing is
enabled.
I am writing this on a G3 mac on the same network and can be pinged by
either PC.

Can anyone help please

Clive wrote:
I have 2 PC's wireless networked, one sharing connection to net. Both
can browse and ping each other, but when I try to share a printer or
add one to the others network neighborhood, neither show up as
available. All sharing is enabled.
I am writing this on a G3 mac on the same network and can be pinged by
either PC.

Can anyone help please

Are they in the same workgroup?
NetBIOS over TCP/IP enabled in each?

On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 16:19:02 -0800, "Clive"
wrote:

I have 2 PC's wireless networked, one sharing connection to net. Both can
browse and ping each other, but when I try to share a printer or add one to
the others network neighborhood, neither show up as available. All sharing is
enabled.
I am writing this on a G3 mac on the same network and can be pinged by
either PC.

Can anyone help please

Clive,

Are both computers in the same workgroup? Are they the only computers in your
LAN?

Are you running both Client for Microsoft Networks, and File and Printer Sharing
for Microsoft Networks (Local Area Connection - Properties), on each computer?

Are you running NetBIOS Over TCP/IP (Local Area Connection - Properties - TCP/IP
- Properties - Advanced - WINS) on each computer?

Do either of the computers have a software firewall (ICF / WF, or third party)?
If so, you need to configure them for file sharing. Firewall configurations are
a very common cause of (network) browser, and file sharing, problems.

The Microsoft Browstat program will show us what browsers you have in your
domain / workgroup, at any time.
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=188305

You can download Browstat from either:
http://www.dynawell.com/reskit/microsoft/win2000/browstat.zip
http://rescomp.stanford.edu/staff/manual/rcc/tools/browstat.zip

Browstat is very small (40K), and needs no install. Just unzip the downloaded
file, copy browstat.exe to any folder in the Path, and run it from a command
window, by "browstat status". Make sure all computers give the same result.

For more information about the browser subsystem (very intricate), see:
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=188001
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=188305
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winntas/deploy/prodspecs/ntbrowse.mspx

--
Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.

"Clive" wrote:

Thanks to Chuck and Lanwench. I am up and running. I tried your suggestions
but subsequently reversed them. I had also installed Sygate as the dial up
was changed to a different machine. After that I could only access the net
fron the other clients with it disabled despite configuring carefully for
netsharing etc. I eventually deleted it, downloaded a fresh copy of Trend
PC-cillin and deleted it from the old dial in machine. Now I am protected
both PC's show up in the neighborhood and printing works fine for the PC's.
and all machines can brouse etc.

The G3 however cannot see the printer. I have installed HP1200 software on
the Mac, appletalk is on and selected to wireless. In chooser however when I
select the HP none show up on the network. Am I missing something here or is
what I want to achieve impossibe in the network scenario I am using?

Thanks again for your original answers.

Clive

I have 2 PC's wireless networked, one sharing connection to net. Both can
browse and ping each other, but when I try to share a printer or add one to
the others network neighborhood, neither show up as available. All sharing is
enabled.
I am writing this on a G3 mac on the same network and can be pinged by
either PC.

Can anyone help pleaseClive