Networking part 2

[FayeC]

I have sent the comments made here to my friend and she had this to
say:
"WINS is not enabled on any of ours
also there is NO domain on any of them.

The current computer guy (that they have been using but want to
discontinue)brought in a new machine for a subcontractor here last
Friday and it is also an XP machine. (He actually set it up at home
and
then brought it in and reconnected it to the network. He did the
"imaging" thing to avoid reinstallation of applications, thats how he
always does it).
And I checked the settings on that XP machine - no netBIOS. I
mentioned
to him I was having problems with the network but he didn't offer to
help me.

On that one he has something in "Other places" in the Network places,
and its called "Incoming connections".
I tried this sort of on my XP machine, but was unsuccessful."

Can anybody make heads and tails out of this?

Thanks again,

FayeC

 

[Stephen Whitlock]

If you are able to ping all machines from each other then it must be a
permissions problem. I am guessing that the new machine has only one
user account that needs to be put on the other machines using new users
with exactly the same username and password. WINS is easily enabled at
the win2k server but the server should then be given a static IP address
and the other PCs configured to point to this as the WINS server. Other
than this I would check again that all PCs have an IP address in the
same range with no duplications and that the workgroup is the same and
that the subnetmasks are the same. While your at it it might be woth
turning off the windows firewall completely on all winXP machines just
for testing.