Can not access My Network Place

[Guest]

Just purchased a new laptop, currently running four machines on a hame
network, two wireless and two lan. All can communicate.

New Laptop has been configured with same workgroup.

When I click on My Network Places. Nothing appears on the screen. All other
computers I see Local Network. New computer is unable to see other computers
as well.

What to do?

 

[Chuck]

Just purchased a new laptop, currently running four machines on a hame
network, two wireless and two lan. All can communicate.

New Laptop has been configured with same workgroup.

When I click on My Network Places. Nothing appears on the screen. All other
computers I see Local Network. New computer is unable to see other computers
as well.

What to do?

Max,

A personal firewall is a likely cause of this sort of problem.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/your-personal-firewall-can-either-help.html>

Also, check each computer using browstat.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/browstat-utility-from-microsoft.html>

 

[Guest]

Chuck I ran this on my main computer and I received a similar all clear
message from my main desktop. However on the laptop I received the following
message.
"Browsing in NOT active on domain
Master name cannot be determined from GetAdapterStatus."

What does this mean and what is the next step?

Much thanks

 

[Newtechie]

Hi Max,

One thing you could check is to make sure the 'Computer Browsing' is started
in the services. Start--->Run--->Type in 'services.msc' without the marks.
On the right side, click on computer browsing - then check to the left of it
to make sure the services is started.

Make sure all firewalls are disabled. After the network is set up, you can
go back and enable them. It would be a good idea to create a rule that
allows your network to access each computer, assuming you're networked
through a router.

Hope this helps,
Newtechie

 

[Thiemo Ripper]

from my experience...in case you use a 3rd party firewall...

its safe to disable the windowsxp firewall but the windows-firewall service
muss be running else your computerbrowser service will stop itself after
some minutes and you wont be able to access your network neighbourhood

check out my post from somewhere in may (search group for: master browser
cannot)
because all the other browstat things failed in my situation....

hth
thiemo

 

[Chuck]

Chuck I ran this on my main computer and I received a similar all clear
message from my main desktop. However on the laptop I received the following
message.
"Browsing in NOT active on domain
Master name cannot be determined from GetAdapterStatus."

What does this mean and what is the next step?

Max,

If you're connecting a new computer to a working LAN, and you get "Browsing is
NOT active on domain", then you likely have a firewall problem.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/your-personal-firewall-can-either-help.html>

 

[Chuck]

Chuck I ran this on my main computer and I received a similar all clear
message from my main desktop. However on the laptop I received the following
message.
"Browsing in NOT active on domain
Master name cannot be determined from GetAdapterStatus."

What does this mean and what is the next step?

Max,

If you're connecting a new computer to a working LAN, and you get "Browsing is
NOT active on domain", then you likely have a firewall problem, and you should
check all computers.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/your-personal-firewall-can-either-help.html>

If the firewall is not the problem, check that you otherwise have connectivity.
You should be getting browsing services from one of the existing computers, so
don't start it on the new computer - that will just confuse things.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/troubleshooting-network-neighborhood.html>