Guest el Diablo Posted July 14, 2007 Posted July 14, 2007 Hello, I have a laptop that the hard drive died in yesterday. I have an old hard drive (two years old) from the laptop that has the OS loaded and all my programs. I had replaced it with a larger drive and put it away for a backup. Anyway, since I've put it back in I can't access the WORKGROUP on the network. There are two other PC's an my home network, one runs Windows 2000, the other runs Windows XP Pro, as well the laptop runs Windows XP Pro. All networking worked fine before the hard drive crashed. The drive I put back in used to access these two PC's as well. I looked on Microsoft's site at article 318030 which told me to make sure these two items were set this way: Step 1: Turn on NetBIOS over TCP/IP Step 2: Start the Computer Browser service They are set correctly. The two other PC's can see each other just fine, they see the laptop but can't access it. Any ideas? Thanks, Brian
Guest Caravelle Posted July 14, 2007 Posted July 14, 2007 Re: Can't Access Workgroup Hi Are all 3 PC in the same workgroup? -- "el Diablo" <nomail@spam.not> wrote in message news:ujOWtPjxHHA.3696@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... > Hello, > > I have a laptop that the hard drive died in yesterday. I have an old hard > drive (two years old) from the laptop that has the OS loaded and all my > programs. I had replaced it with a larger drive and put it away for a > backup. > > > Anyway, since I've put it back in I can't access the WORKGROUP on the > network. There are two other PC's an my home network, one runs Windows > 2000, > the other runs Windows XP Pro, as well the laptop runs Windows XP Pro. > > All networking worked fine before the hard drive crashed. The drive I put > back in used to access these two PC's as well. > > I looked on Microsoft's site at article 318030 which told me to make sure > these two items were set this way: > > Step 1: Turn on NetBIOS over TCP/IP > > Step 2: Start the Computer Browser service > > They are set correctly. The two other PC's can see each other just fine, > they see the laptop but can't access it. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks, > Brian >
Guest el Diablo Posted July 14, 2007 Posted July 14, 2007 Re: Can't Access Workgroup "Caravelle" <chumas@xxxx.com> wrote in message news:Og9sUVjxHHA.1208@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... > Hi > > Are all 3 PC in the same workgroup? > > -- > > "el Diablo" <nomail@spam.not> wrote in message > news:ujOWtPjxHHA.3696@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... >> Hello, >> >> I have a laptop that the hard drive died in yesterday. I have an old hard >> drive (two years old) from the laptop that has the OS loaded and all my >> programs. I had replaced it with a larger drive and put it away for a >> backup. >> >> >> Anyway, since I've put it back in I can't access the WORKGROUP on the >> network. There are two other PC's an my home network, one runs Windows >> 2000, >> the other runs Windows XP Pro, as well the laptop runs Windows XP Pro. >> >> All networking worked fine before the hard drive crashed. The drive I put >> back in used to access these two PC's as well. >> >> I looked on Microsoft's site at article 318030 which told me to make sure >> these two items were set this way: >> >> Step 1: Turn on NetBIOS over TCP/IP >> >> Step 2: Start the Computer Browser service >> >> They are set correctly. The two other PC's can see each other just fine, >> they see the laptop but can't access it. >> >> Any ideas? >> >> Thanks, >> Brian >> > Yes
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