Error in My Network Places on Windows XP

[S]

I have Windows XP Professional SP2 working on Pentium IV.
I have the following problem:
When I use My Network places to list the computers on my Local Area Network,
it sometimes lists 5 PCs, sometimes 20, and sometimes all the PCs on the
network (the network has more than 50 PCs in a single workgroup, and there
are about 7 workgroups). When it does not show any PC in a particular
workgroup, it gives an error message that "You dont have the permission to
view the workgroup..................." etc.
Also when I try to open a particular PC on the network, sometimes it opens
the shared folder on it, but often it does not and instead gives me the
message that "You dont have the permission to view......" etc.
As for the listing of workgroups, sometimes it lists all the wokgroups,
sometimes it lists only the a few of them, and sometimes it lists none of
the workgroups. I have tried to reformat my PC and re-install windows many
times and have updated all the patches from the windows update site, still
the problem remains.

Please help

 

[smlunatick]

I have Windows XP Professional SP2 working on Pentium IV.
I have the following problem:
When I use My Network places to list the computers on my Local Area Network,
it sometimes lists 5 PCs, sometimes 20, and sometimes all the PCs on the
network (the network has more than 50 PCs in a single workgroup, and there
are about 7 workgroups). When it does not show any PC in a particular
workgroup, it gives an error message that "You dont have the permission to
view the workgroup..................." etc.
Also when I try to open a particular PC on the network, sometimes it opens
the shared folder on it, but often it does not and instead gives me the
message that "You dont have the permission to view......" etc.
As for the listing of workgroups, sometimes it lists all the wokgroups,
sometimes it lists only the a few of them, and sometimes it lists none of
the workgroups. I have tried to reformat my PC and re-install windows many
times and have updated all the patches from the windows update site, still
the problem remains.

Please help

Check to see if each PC as some type of firewall software "blocking"
incoming access. Please note that some anti-virus systems (like
Norton Anti-Virus Internet Worm configuration) also places a type of
firewall software.

 

[S]

The key issue is if there is some problem , then I should never be able to
view the computers, which is not the case. Sometimes I do see the list of
more than 50 computers.
The complete error that I receive sometimes is :
\\PCName is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this
network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if
you have access permissions.
The network path was not found.

Whereas on some other time, I am able to see and access the same PC.

Please help.

 

[S]

The key issue is if there is some problem , then I should never be able to
view the computers, which is not the case. Sometimes I do see the list of
more than 50 computers.
The complete error that I receive sometimes is :
\\PCName is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this
network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if
you have access permissions.
The network path was not found.

Whereas on some other time, I am able to see and access the same PC.

Please help.

 

[Malke]

The key issue is if there is some problem , then I should never be able to
view the computers, which is not the case. Sometimes I do see the list of
more than 50 computers.
The complete error that I receive sometimes is :
\\PCName is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this
network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if
you have access permissions.
The network path was not found.

Whereas on some other time, I am able to see and access the same PC.

(snippage to emphasis the following
I can't believe your network functions at all with that many computers
in peer-to-peer workgroups. You need to get a server in there and all
the workstations on a domain. Unless the different workgroups are all on
separate subnets, having the computers in separate workgroups provides
nothing to help with networking - just a cosmetic and organizational
device. If all of your computers are on the same subnet, you are
undoubtedly running into concurrent inbound connection limitations.
Anyone who would set up a network like this may also not have
appropriate networking hardware and that could certainly cause access
issues, bandwidth issues, network collisions.

I don't say this to hurt your feelings in any way but you may want to
hire a computer networking professional to come in and set you up
properly and see what is really happening in your situation.


Malke

 

[Guest]

Does your NetBios Over TCP/IP is enabled?.
Also are you logged as admin on this machine or with guest account?, if it
peer-t0-peer how can you view more than 10 PCs without a real Server, can you
tell us or explain it to us?.
Sharing is enabled on all machines and the right permissions been assigned
to the right users?
Open a command run and try this:
net view \\pcname click [OK]
Do you get error "access is denied"?.
Network resource. "Access is denied.":
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=913628

"Workgroup_name is not accessible. You may not have permission to use this
network resource.":
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/915107/en-us
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/318030/en-us
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/285035/en-us
HTH.
nass