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Jonathan
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      1st Sep 2003
BTW... the KB solution I already tried is found in KB
(823301)

THanks,

Jonathan
>-----Original Message-----
>Hi there,
>I've tried finding other posts refering to this but have
>no so far.
>
>We have two computers... both XP Pro.
>One of them shares it's dial-up connection with the
>other. That works fine.
>
>Both have firewalls (Outpost on one and Norton on the
>other). But I have disabled them whilst trouble shooting
>this problem to ensure the FW's are not the cause.
>
>The work group on both is set to MSHOME.
>Both computers can ping each other fine.
>Both computers are set up to file and print share.
>Yet, when I go into MICROSOFT WINDOWS NETWORK / MSHOME

on
>either machine I am not able to see any computers under
>MSHOME. Mshome does appear... but nothing under it.
>WHen I click on MSHOME (to browse it) the computer will
>sit there for quite some time and then give an error
>message as follows:
>---------------------------
>Mshome 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 list of servers for this workgroup is not currently
>available
>---------------------------
>
>I've looked through the MS Support site and the NG but
>could not find an answer to this problem... although I

am
>sure it's quit common and has a simple enough solution.
>Any help would be appreciated. I would also apreciate an
>email copy of any replies and I find that some times I
>lose the message I posted because so many hundreds get
>posted each day.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jonathan
>
>EMAIL: (E-Mail Removed)VETHIScom
>
>Remove "REMOVETHIS". Rest of the address is as it should
>be.
>.
>

 
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