Computer Not accessible on Home network

[Guest]

I have 3 computers networked with a Linksys WRT54G wireless router connected
to a DSL modem. 1 PC is wired to a switch port and the other 2 through
wireless.

The computer I have hard wired cannot access the other 2 and vice versa.
The wireless PCs are sharing files and printers without a problem. They can
see the problem PC in networking windows but when I try to access it I get a
"\\name is not accessible you may not have permission..... The network path
is not found." error message.

I can ping all of the computers on the network and all of them can access
the internet. The problem computer shows up in the networking windows and
displays it's own shared resources. But does not display the other 2
computers.

I have norton personal firewall installed, but have tried disabling it and
even unistalling it. Still the same problem. I have disabled windows
firewall.

This is a clean install of XP pro with SP2.

 

[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

I have 3 computers networked with a Linksys WRT54G wireless router connected
to a DSL modem. 1 PC is wired to a switch port and the other 2 through
wireless.

The computer I have hard wired cannot access the other 2 and vice versa.
The wireless PCs are sharing files and printers without a problem. They can
see the problem PC in networking windows but when I try to access it I get a
"\\name is not accessible you may not have permission..... The network path
is not found." error message.

I can ping all of the computers on the network and all of them can access
the internet. The problem computer shows up in the networking windows and
displays it's own shared resources. But does not display the other 2
computers.

I have norton personal firewall installed, but have tried disabling it and
even unistalling it. Still the same problem. I have disabled windows
firewall.

This is a clean install of XP pro with SP2.

Run the Network Setup Wizard on the computer that can't be accessed.
That's often all that's needed to fix the problem.

Make sure that NetBIOS over TCP/IP is enabled on all computers:

1. Open the Network Connections folder.
2. Right click the local area network connection and click Properties.
3. Double click Internet Protocol (TCP/IP).
4. Click Advanced.
5. Click WINS.
6. Click the Enable NetBIOS Over TCP/IP button.

Run "ipconfig /all" on each computer and look at the "Node Type" at
the beginning of the output. If it says "Peer-to-Peer" (which should
actually be "Point-to-Point") that's the problem. It means that the
computer only uses a WINS server, which isn't available on a
peer-to-peer network, for NetBIOS name resolution.

If that's the case, run the registry editor, open this key:

HLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Netbt\Parameters

and delete these values if they're present:

NodeType
DhcpNodeType

Reboot, then try network access again.

If that doesn't fix it, open that registry key again, create a DWORD
value called "NodeType", and set it to 1 for "Broadcast" or 4 for
"Mixed".

For details, see these Microsoft Knowledge Base articles:

Default Node Type for Microsoft Clients
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;160177

TCP/IP and NBT Configuration Parameters for Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314053
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Best Wishes,
Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

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[Guest]

I tried all of the suggestions in your response. No good...
I have NetBIOS enable, and tried all of the node types you suggested. It
was orginally set as "hybrid"

When I chaged the node types I lost the ability to see the shared resources
on the problem PC. WHen I re-ran the networking wizrd they showed up again.
The other computers on my network can see the problem PC but get an access
error when I try to connect to them. I can ping all of the computers on the
network.

Ideas???

Is there any way to force XP to delete all of the netwrking settings and
then re-run the wizard and see if fixes it?