Accessing network

[Guest]

The laptop running WinXP sp1 has internet access and can ping anything, but
you can not see anything in My Network Places. I open it up and click on
entire network and nothing shows up. When I try to map a network drive there
is still nothing in the entire network and it will not accept the
"\\server\share" format. Also I can click Start\ Run and use the
"\\server\share" format and it tells me "This file does not have a program
associated with it for preforming this action". Any ideas would be helpful.

 

[Carey Holzman]

You are welcome to email me if you would like to work on this one-on-one.

(e-mail address removed)

 

[Chuck]

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 15:07:03 -0800, "Network access" <Network

The laptop running WinXP sp1 has internet access and can ping anything, but
you can not see anything in My Network Places. I open it up and click on
entire network and nothing shows up. When I try to map a network drive there
is still nothing in the entire network and it will not accept the
"\\server\share" format. Also I can click Start\ Run and use the
"\\server\share" format and it tells me "This file does not have a program
associated with it for preforming this action". Any ideas would be helpful.

Are you running both Client for Microsoft Networks, and File and Printer Sharing
for Microsoft Networks (Local Area Connection - Properties), on each computer?
Do you have shares setup on each?

Are you running NetBIOS Over TCP/IP (Local Area Connection - Properties - TCP/IP
- Properties - Advanced - WINS) on each computer?

Make sure the browser service is running on at least one computer on your LAN,
preferably the computers that are online the most. Control Panel -
Administrative Tools - Services. Verify that the Computer Browser, and the
TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper, services both show with Status = Started.

The Microsoft Browstat program will show us what browsers you have in your
domain / workgroup, at any time.
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=188305

You can download Browstat from either:
<http://www.dynawell.com/reskit/microsoft/win2000/browstat.zip>
<http://rescomp.stanford.edu/staff/manual/rcc/tools/browstat.zip>

Browstat is very small (40K), and needs no install. Just unzip the downloaded
file, copy browstat.exe to any folder in the Path, and run it from a command
window.

For more information about the browser subsystem (very intricate), see:
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=188001
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=188305
<http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winntas/deploy/prodspecs/ntbrowse.mspx>

 

[Guest]

I ended up doing a repair on the OS and that fixed the problem.

 

[Chuck]

I ended up doing a repair on the OS and that fixed the problem.

Thank you for the update.