Thanks for the suggestions.
Unfortunately the URL references in your response tend lose me as I try to
progress from one to the other. By now, I have several file-folders of
printouts from your Blog. I've studied all of them carefully without
getting any closer to understanding my problem -- indeed, I may have become
even more confused.
For example, with respect to your Usenet posting and Blogs on "Browsers," I
still don't understand whether or not my using two internet browsers (IE6
and Firefox,) has any relevance to my file-sharing networking problem.
Let me refer explicitly to one of the many sections of your blog that I've
studied: Chuck's Network Irregularities in Workgroup Visibility:" While
trying to follow your instructions there, I've progressed as follows:
1. I've pretty well eliminated a personal firewall as part of the problem by
working with the software company that provides my firewall (Grisom>) and
the problem persists whether or not I have any Firewall.
2. I don't know how to go about checking for an "anonymous access block."
Any hints?
3. I've studied the "ipconfig/all" outputs of the three Work Group
computers and the one for my desktop looks very strange indeed -- especially
in contrast the output of the two laptops. But, I really don't know how to
interpret what I see. What do you suggest I do then: post on this Usenet
forum the whole ipconfig/all reports for the desktop and ask "What's wrong
(if anything) with this?"
I haven't yet gotten to the download "browstat" part because I'm almost
certain that I'll run into the same road blocks as I have with the
"ipconfig/all" report: I won't know how to interpret the report or how to
frame questions about it.
I'm convinced that you're very knowledgeable, but I'm afraid you're way over
the head of even the long-time, typical, computer user.
What is your suggestion for me, given the above? Be polite, now!
OK, Joseph,
This is Usenet. My personal motto is "If you don't get flamed at least monthly,
you're not really here". But I will be polite and not flame you. ;-)
Now then, a lot of the help that I do is through my website, which is basically
one big interlinked hypertext document. I started it a long time ago, from just
3 articles, which comprised 90% of the help that I was providing online.
One of those original articles was about the browser. The browser is a Windows
subsystem, that does nothing but run in the background, and provide the contents
of Network Neighborhood (aka My Network Places). When I talk about your LAN,
and your browser problems, please don't confuse that with Internet Explorer and
Firefox - this is not the same subject at all.
I will try and give you advice more specific to your problem, without just
throwing you a lot of links, but the links that I do provide will be point to
essential diagnostics and procedures which will help you, or help you to help me
to help you. So I will seriously ask that you read at least each individual
article that I provide to you, and follow links where you can. Help Me To Help
You.
Of the many articles that I've written, the "Irregularities..." article was
written the most recently, and condenses all of the first post advice that I
have provided to date, for people reporting browser related symptoms. Of that
article, Step 1, the firewall, is probably the absolutely most common resolution
for problems experienced in this and similar forums. Step2, the anonymous
access restriction, is a registry setting that was recently (probably) caused by
a Microsoft update, though nobody (including Microsoft) has offered any
suggestions about what specific update caused it.
If you're absolutely certain that you don't have a firewall problem, fine.
We'll move on. The first thing I will ask for is "browstat status" and
"ipconfig /all" from each computer, per steps 3 and 4, and follow the links
there.
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http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/10/irregularities-in-workgroup-visibility.html
Please, follow the links; the information that will answer most of your
questions is all there, for many of your questions have already been asked by
those that have been helped here in the past. I do rewrite the content
frequently, based upon additional questions from folks like you, but you have to
read the content and ask questions first. Help Me To Help You.
