Guest mcp6453 Posted August 4, 2007 Posted August 4, 2007 This problem is happening on only one of the XP computers on my peer-to-peer network. When I "View workgroup computers", all of my networked computers appear. However, if I double click on most of them, I get an error: '\\Server is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions. The network path was not found." The problem is not on \\server as it is accessible from any other computer on the network (so it is not a Server permissions issue, as the error suggests.) If I Start | Run \\Server, I get the same error. If I Start | Run \\192.168.1.88 (the corect IP address), I get to the server and everything works fine. The problem just started intermittently yesterday. I have replaced the TCP/IP stack several times, per Microsoft KB articles, and nothing has changed. I originally thought the problem was NBT, but since I can see all of the computers, I think the problem is elsewhere. Help!
Guest db ´¯`·.. > Posted August 4, 2007 Posted August 4, 2007 Re: Unable to Access Workgroup Computer copy your question from this thread and repost here: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/newsgroups/reader.mspx?dg=microsoft.public.windowsxp.network_web&lang=en&cr=US while your waiting, you might use the search window and see if you can find a answer... -- db ·´¯`·.¸. , . .·´¯`·..><)))º>`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·...¸><)))º>¸. ><)))º>·´¯`·.¸. , . .·´¯`·.. ><)))º>`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·...¸><)))º> .. "mcp6453" <mcp6453@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:egDdtmr1HHA.4004@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > This problem is happening on only one of the XP computers on my > peer-to-peer network. When I "View workgroup computers", all of my > networked computers appear. However, if I double click on most of > them, I get an error: '\\Server is not accessible. You might not have > permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of > this server to find out if you have access permissions. The network > path was not found." > > The problem is not on \\server as it is accessible from any other > computer on the network (so it is not a Server permissions issue, as > the error suggests.) If I Start | Run \\Server, I get the same error. > If I Start | Run \\192.168.1.88 (the corect IP address), I get to the > server and everything works fine. > > The problem just started intermittently yesterday. I have replaced the > TCP/IP stack several times, per Microsoft KB articles, and nothing has > changed. > > I originally thought the problem was NBT, but since I can see all of > the computers, I think the problem is elsewhere. Help!
Guest Shenan Stanley Posted August 4, 2007 Posted August 4, 2007 Re: Unable to Access Workgroup Computer mcp6453 wrote: > This problem is happening on only one of the XP computers on my > peer-to-peer network. When I "View workgroup computers", all of my > networked computers appear. However, if I double click on most of > them, I get an error: '\\Server is not accessible. You might not > have permission to use this network resource. Contact the > administrator of this server to find out if you have access > permissions. The network path was not found." > > The problem is not on \\server as it is accessible from any other > computer on the network (so it is not a Server permissions issue, > as the error suggests.) If I Start | Run \\Server, I get the same > error. If I Start | Run \\192.168.1.88 (the corect IP address), I > get to the server and everything works fine. > > The problem just started intermittently yesterday. I have replaced > the TCP/IP stack several times, per Microsoft KB articles, and > nothing has changed. > > I originally thought the problem was NBT, but since I can see all > of the computers, I think the problem is elsewhere. Help! What is recorded in the Event Log? Do you have Norton Internet Security installed (or any third-party firewall?) If you ping the "server" by name --> what do you get back? If you tracert the "server" by name --> what do you get back? If you ipconfig /all on each of the machines (in an opened command prompt) --> other than the IP addresses, what is different? All using the same DNS? All in the same subnet? Verified all the computers are in the same workgroup? (although that matters very little most of the time - it could make a difference depending on how you map things...) Are all the computers Windows XP Home Edition or Windows XP Professional or what? What specifically is the one computer that is acting up? Have you opened a command prompt and entered: netsh winsock reset <Enter> And rebooted to see if that helps (on the troubled machine.) Tried: Start button --> RUN --> netsh diag gui --> OK and running the tests there? Matter of fact - have you been through this article? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314067/ Is simple file sharing turned on? -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
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