Can't see workgroup computers any more

[Guest]

Recently (within the past 2 weeks) I've lost my ability to see my workgroup
computers on 3 out of 4 computers on my home network. One computer can see
everything, but if I go to "My Network Places" on the other 3 computers, I
can't even see the workgroup "home". What makes this even more strange is
that if I manually type the name of my print server computer into the "add
printers" wizard, it finds it and adds the printer. So, all my computers can
print via my print server computer ------- it's just that "My Network Places"
seems to have stopped working on 3 of my 4 computers. On the computer that
it still works on, I can see all the other computers and access shared files.
I've checked that the Computer Browser, Server, and Workstation processes
are running on all 4 computers. Again, this hapened only over the last
couple of weeks. I know that there was a windows upgrade that was installed,
could this have caused the problem? ------ thanks in advance for your help.

 

[kimiraikkonen]

One of more services may be disabled or not running. For example
workstation and ICS services must be running. And under TCP/IP
settings, netBIOS must be enabled.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the quick answer. It turns out it was my Linsys Router that was
messing everything up. It's been acting flaky lately, and this is just the
latest instance of a problem. Once I turned it off and turned it on again,
everything worked normally. I think I need a new wireless router

 

[kimiraikkonen]

Thanks for the quick answer. It turns out it was my Linsys Router that was
messing everything up. It's been acting flaky lately, and this is just the
latest instance of a problem. Once I turned it off and turned it on again,
everything worked normally. I think I need a new wireless router

If you're using workgroup computers "wireless" , it's likely to lose
connection due to signal interfere, if you're using wired (CAT cable
ethernet), the clients may have lost connection due not to renew DHCP
lease. (try giving IPs manually in that case)

 

[Phisherman]

Recently (within the past 2 weeks) I've lost my ability to see my workgroup
computers on 3 out of 4 computers on my home network. One computer can see
everything, but if I go to "My Network Places" on the other 3 computers, I
can't even see the workgroup "home". What makes this even more strange is
that if I manually type the name of my print server computer into the "add
printers" wizard, it finds it and adds the printer. So, all my computers can
print via my print server computer ------- it's just that "My Network Places"
seems to have stopped working on 3 of my 4 computers. On the computer that
it still works on, I can see all the other computers and access shared files.
I've checked that the Computer Browser, Server, and Workstation processes
are running on all 4 computers. Again, this hapened only over the last
couple of weeks. I know that there was a windows upgrade that was installed,
could this have caused the problem? ------ thanks in advance for your help.

I have always had this issue, but only with Windows. Try (cold)
rebooting all the PCs, wait 10 minutes, then check My Network Places.
That usually does the trick, at least for me. And yes it's possible
the upgrade did something to cause it. Or, in a DOS window see if
you can ping another PC.