On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 15:07:03 -0800, "Network access" <Network
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>The laptop running WinXP sp1 has internet access and can ping anything, but
>you can not see anything in My Network Places. I open it up and click on
>entire network and nothing shows up. When I try to map a network drive there
>is still nothing in the entire network and it will not accept the
>"\\server\share" format. Also I can click Start\ Run and use the
>"\\server\share" format and it tells me "This file does not have a program
>associated with it for preforming this action". Any ideas would be helpful.
Are you running both Client for Microsoft Networks, and File and Printer Sharing
for Microsoft Networks (Local Area Connection - Properties), on each computer?
Do you have shares setup on each?
Are you running NetBIOS Over TCP/IP (Local Area Connection - Properties - TCP/IP
- Properties - Advanced - WINS) on each computer?
Make sure the browser service is running on at least one computer on your LAN,
preferably the computers that are online the most. Control Panel -
Administrative Tools - Services. Verify that the Computer Browser, and the
TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper, services both show with Status = Started.
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.
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>
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Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.
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