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John Coutts said:
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No Firewall on any machine. Firewall is at the network perimeter.
Interesting... the plot thickens.
I found this and was playing around with it a bit:
http://www.michna.com/kb/wxnet.htm
Here are some things I found that we should look at a little more closely or
at least confirm. I apologize if these seem to rudimentary, or that you may
have already gone over them. I think we both know and agree your current
setup should just work out of the box. Agreed? So there's something
hindering the service from operating on that one machine, or all of them
(for whatever reason). Also, most of the links I've found researching this
all point to the firewall service, but since you have it disabled on all
machines, I've been discarding those hits.
1.. Check all NetBIOS names for possible duplicates. For example, if the
workgroup name coincides with a user or computer name, this could cause the
problem. Try opening a command line window and issuing the command: net view
2.. Issue the command: net view \\computername, where computername should
be replaced with one of the names displayed with the simple net view
command. Check all names for possible duplication.
3.. Disable, better yet uninstall or upgrade, all antivirus software and
third party firewalls. Check to see if they perform network montoring.
4.. Rid the computer of adware and spyware.
5.. Repair the Winsock with the command: netsh winsock reset (This removes
all third party Layered Service Providers-LSPs.
6.. Computers running older operating systems than Windows XP may disturb
the computer browser system. If there are any devices on the network that is
capable of interfering, let's stop them as well.
7.. Make sure that the TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper service is running and has
the proper start type.
8.. Make sure MS Client & File and Print Sharing is enabled.
9.. Uninstall third party client software that can interfere with the
networking settings. Such software could have come with network adapters or
with a router.
10.. Force it to use NetBIOS over TCP/IP under NIC properties, IP
Properties, Advanced, WINS tab.
11.. I remember mentioning browcon.exe, but you didn't post any results or
if you have tried it, and assume you have already done so without the
desired results.
12.. Let's also take a look at browstat. It will show you if browsing is
enabled on the network and who the master browser is. You can download
Browstat from
http://www.dynawell.com/reskit/microsoft/win2000/browstat.zip
or
http://rescomp.stanford.edu/staff/manual/rcc/tools/browstat.zip. Here is
a link from Microsoft on it's use:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=188305
Here's another interesting thing I found as well:
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You have both the following symptoms:
a.. You can ping the computer by IP and by name.
b.. When you type on another computer, replacing computername with the
name of the inaccessible computer:
net view \\computername
you get one of the various "Error 5" error messages, like "System error 5
has occurred. Access is denied" or "Error 5: You do not currently have
access to this file. ..."
This is in some cases caused by a registry setting named RestrictAnonymous.
Go to the computer which you cannot access, start a registry editor and
change the following registry value.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
\SYSTEM
\CurrentControlSet
\Control
\Lsa
Value name: RestrictAnonymous
Value type: DWORD
If the value is 1 or even 2, change it to 0, reboot and retest. If the
problem is solved, leave the value at zero. If not, you can change it back
if you like.
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Another interesting one:
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Another related and surprisingly frequent problem beside disabled NetBIOS
over TCP/IP is the setting of an unsuitable node type for Windows networks
(which use NetBIOS). If you don't see other computers in Network
Neighborhood or My Network Places, then this computer may have the wrong
node type. If you get error messages when you try to access another
computer, then you may have to walk over to that other computer and perform
the following steps there.
First check the node type by opening a command line window and typing the
command
ipconfig /all
This command reports the node type, among other information. It should be
Hybrid or Unknown, but not Point-to-Point (p-node, actually a mistaken
interpretation of Peer-to-Peer), because that would work only when a WINS
server is present.
If the node type is P-t-P, you can use regedit.exe to go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
\System
\CurrentControlSet
\Services
\Netbt
\Parameters
and delete any of the two values NodeType and DhcpNodeType if they exist,
forcing Windows to fall back to its default node type, which should be
Hybrid. Reboot.
More details can be found in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base
article.
Default Node Type for Microsoft Clients
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=160177
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Well, that's about it for right now. Other than this, I'm not sure what is
going on. Like I said, it should just work out-of-the-box.
Let me know what you find with the above information.
Thanks
Ace
