Help with Workgroup

S

Stubby

I have 2 Win2K SP4 machines and a Vista machine. When thing are
going well, all three are in a workgroup, say FOO. However, this
machine slips out of FOO and can't see the other two. Network Places
shows FOO but when I click on it, I get "FOO is inaccessible. Network
path not found."

How do I fix that? Can I delete FOO (how?) and recreate it? TIA.
 
P

Pegasus \(MVP\)

Stubby said:
I have 2 Win2K SP4 machines and a Vista machine. When thing are
going well, all three are in a workgroup, say FOO. However, this
machine slips out of FOO and can't see the other two. Network Places
shows FOO but when I click on it, I get "FOO is inaccessible. Network
path not found."

How do I fix that? Can I delete FOO (how?) and recreate it? TIA.
Click to expand...

You write "I have 2 Win2K SP4 machines and a Vista machine. This machine
slips out of FOO". Which machine?
 
S

Stubby

You write "I have 2 Win2K SP4 machines and a Vista machine. This machine
slips out of FOO". Which machine?
Click to expand...

One of the Win2K SP4 machines. The other one is broken and turned
off.
I discovered that This Machine can see itself in the workgroup, but
cannot see the Vista machine. The Vista machine can see both.

How can I just flush the Workgroup? Then recreate it.
 
P

Pegasus \(MVP\)

You write "I have 2 Win2K SP4 machines and a Vista machine. This machine
slips out of FOO". Which machine?
Click to expand...

One of the Win2K SP4 machines. The other one is broken and turned
off.
I discovered that This Machine can see itself in the workgroup, but
cannot see the Vista machine. The Vista machine can see both.

How can I just flush the Workgroup? Then recreate it.

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The problem might have nothing to do with workgroups. I would try some
humble commands, issued from a Command Prompt, e.g.

net use Q: \\VistaPC\ShareName

It might also be a good idea to cross-post your question to a Vista
newsgroup. It might be necessary to adjust certain security restrictions on
the Vista machine in order to admit a Win2000 machine. Vista is well-known
for its very tight security policy.
 

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