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Eckhardt Newger
Hello,
Small workgroup here (named HOMEWLAN) consisting of a NAT-router (D-Link
DI-614+, IP 192.168.0.1, setup as DHCP server) and two computers:
- PC1 (desknote-winxp), a laptop with Win XP Pro SP2 connected via onboard
wired Ethernet card
- PC2 (solovino-nb009), a PC with Win XP Pro Sp1 connected via wireless
Ethernet card
File and Print Sharing was was functioning quite well for several months,
and is now broken. I changed to things on PC1:
1. I introduced a new hardware profile (named Offline) for use when not at
home. I made quite a lot of changes to services and startup programs!
2. I upgraded to SP2 which went through flawlessly as far as I can see from
the past 15 days.
I looked for a troubleshooting guide, and found one on PChuck's Network
named 'Troubleshooting Network Neighborhood
Problems'. When I first walked through it and applied recommended actions, I
finally got the following situation:
Both PC's showed up under HOMEWLAN on both PC's, I could access PC1 from
PC2, but not vice versa. Here PC1 was set as master browser.
Then I changed my mind, and switched the roles of PC1 and Pc2 (against the
recommendation in that guide), so made PC2 - the wirelessly connected
computer - the master browser. I think this way round it makes more sense,
because PC2 is always present in the workgroup (it's wirelessly connected
because of the long distance to the router and to avoid having an Ethernet
cable running through the whole flat). PC1, the laptop, is used at home and
on the road (it's cable connected
because when used at home it's very close to the router). When I made all
necessary changes I got the following result:
PC2 shows up on both PC's. PC1 doesn't show up on either PC. On PC2, When I
doubleclick on Solovino-nb009 (under HOMEWLAN on PC1) I get
'\\Solovino-nb009\share-name is not accessible. You might not have
permission to use this network resource. ... Remote procedure call failed'.
In Windows Explorer on PC2, shares from both PCs are listed under Network
Neibourhood. When I try to open a share from PC1, I get error message
'\\Desknote-winxp\share-name is not accessible. You might not have
permission to use this network resource. ... Network path not found'.
Both PCs have
- latest hotfixes applied
- latest drivers installed
- simple file and print sharing disabled
- Windows XP firewall disabled
- ZoneAlarm Security Suite enabled (HOMEWLAN shows up in the Secure Zone on
both PC's)
- properly activated accounts for network access (via NET USER)
- Guest account disabled
- properly set User Rights Assignment for non-Guest authentication
- restrictanonymous = 0
- hidden = 0
- MaintainServerList = Auto
- no warnings/errors in Device Manager
- no warnings/errors in Event Protocol
PC1 / Pc2 have
- Service 'Computerbrowser' disabled / running
- IsDomainMaster = False / Yes
Here are 'ipconfig /all' and 'browstat status' for PC1:
Windows-IP-Konfiguration
Hostname. . . . . . . . . . . . . : desknote-winxp
Primäres DNS-Suffix . . . . . . . :
Knotentyp . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unbekannt
IP-Routing aktiviert. . . . . . . : Nein
WINS-Proxy aktiviert. . . . . . . : Nein
Ethernetadapter LAN-Verbindung:
Verbindungsspezifisches DNS-Suffix:
Beschreibung. . . . . . . . . . . : SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet
Adapter
Physikalische Adresse . . . . . . : 00-0A-E6-BA-8A-63
DHCP aktiviert. . . . . . . . . . : Ja
Autokonfiguration aktiviert . . . : Ja
IP-Adresse. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.100
Subnetzmaske. . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Standardgateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
DHCP-Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
DNS-Server. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
Lease erhalten. . . . . . . . . . : Donnerstag, 25. August 2005
08:59:47
Lease läuft ab. . . . . . . . . . : Donnerstag, 1. September 2005
08:59:47
Status for domain HOMEWLAN on transport
\Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{92926010-B84E-4A59-9B04-B20AB53CD499}
Browsing is active on domain.
Master browser name is: SOLOVINO-NB009
Master browser is running build 2600
1 backup servers retrieved from master SOLOVINO-NB009
\\SOLOVINO-NB009
There are 1 servers in domain HOMEWLAN on transport
\Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{92926010-B84E-4A59-9B04-B20AB53CD499}
There are 1 domains in domain HOMEWLAN on transport
\Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{92926010-B84E-4A59-9B04-B20AB53CD499}
And here the same for PC2:
Windows-IP-Konfiguration
Hostname. . . . . . . . . . . . . : solovino-nb00i9
Primäres DNS-Suffix . . . . . . . :
Knotentyp . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unbekannt
IP-Routing aktiviert. . . . . . . : Nein
WINS-Proxy aktiviert. . . . . . . : Nein
Ethernetadapter D-Link DWL-520+ WLAN:
Verbindungsspezifisches DNS-Suffix:
Beschreibung. . . . . . . . . . . : D-Link AirPlus DWL-520+ Wireless
PCI Adapter
Physikalische Adresse . . . . . . : 00-0D-88-AA-7E-F9
DHCP aktiviert. . . . . . . . . . : Ja
Autokonfiguration aktiviert . . . : Ja
IP-Adresse. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.201
Subnetzmaske. . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Standardgateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
DHCP-Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
DNS-Server. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
Lease erhalten. . . . . . . . . . : Donnerstag, 25. August 2005
08:51:18
Lease läuft ab. . . . . . . . . . : Donnerstag, 1. September 2005
08:51:18
Status for domain HOMEWLAN on transport
\Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{A4F4637A-E52B-491D-981C-DF8159B76CCA}
Browsing is active on domain.
Master browser name is: SOLOVINO-NB009
Master browser is running build 2600
1 backup servers retrieved from master SOLOVINO-NB009
\\SOLOVINO-NB009
There are 1 servers in domain HOMEWLAN on transport
\Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{A4F4637A-E52B-491D-981C-DF8159B76CCA}
There are 1 domains in domain HOMEWLAN on transport
\Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{A4F4637A-E52B-491D-981C-DF8159B76CCA}
Two remarks to the ipconfig output:
1. The hostname of PC2 is reported as 'solovino-nb00i9', but according to
Control Panel/System/Computername it should be 'solovino-nb009'. I searched
the registry, and found some entries for 'solovino-nb00i9' which I manually
changed to 'solovino-nb009', but still as you can see ipconfig shows
'solovino-nb00i9'!?
2. Knodetype is reported as 'Unknown'. on PC1, I tried to change that to
'Broadcast' by setting
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Netbt\Parameters\EnableProxy
= 0
No success as ipconfig shows.
I did a LSP / Winsock repair prior to above reports according to the
description in the guide (which involved LSPFix, WinSockFix, and XP SP2
onboard tools 'netsh int ip reset' and 'netsh winsock reset catalog') .
Unfortunately, that didn't help. I once again checked both PC's are in the
same workgroup. They can ping each other, and both have Internet connect.
I really have no clue what's going on here. I highly appreciate any hint
which could help me to remedy my File and Print Sharing problem.
Many thanks in advance for anyone's investigation.
Best Regards
Eckhardt Newger
Small workgroup here (named HOMEWLAN) consisting of a NAT-router (D-Link
DI-614+, IP 192.168.0.1, setup as DHCP server) and two computers:
- PC1 (desknote-winxp), a laptop with Win XP Pro SP2 connected via onboard
wired Ethernet card
- PC2 (solovino-nb009), a PC with Win XP Pro Sp1 connected via wireless
Ethernet card
File and Print Sharing was was functioning quite well for several months,
and is now broken. I changed to things on PC1:
1. I introduced a new hardware profile (named Offline) for use when not at
home. I made quite a lot of changes to services and startup programs!
2. I upgraded to SP2 which went through flawlessly as far as I can see from
the past 15 days.
I looked for a troubleshooting guide, and found one on PChuck's Network
named 'Troubleshooting Network Neighborhood
Problems'. When I first walked through it and applied recommended actions, I
finally got the following situation:
Both PC's showed up under HOMEWLAN on both PC's, I could access PC1 from
PC2, but not vice versa. Here PC1 was set as master browser.
Then I changed my mind, and switched the roles of PC1 and Pc2 (against the
recommendation in that guide), so made PC2 - the wirelessly connected
computer - the master browser. I think this way round it makes more sense,
because PC2 is always present in the workgroup (it's wirelessly connected
because of the long distance to the router and to avoid having an Ethernet
cable running through the whole flat). PC1, the laptop, is used at home and
on the road (it's cable connected
because when used at home it's very close to the router). When I made all
necessary changes I got the following result:
PC2 shows up on both PC's. PC1 doesn't show up on either PC. On PC2, When I
doubleclick on Solovino-nb009 (under HOMEWLAN on PC1) I get
'\\Solovino-nb009\share-name is not accessible. You might not have
permission to use this network resource. ... Remote procedure call failed'.
In Windows Explorer on PC2, shares from both PCs are listed under Network
Neibourhood. When I try to open a share from PC1, I get error message
'\\Desknote-winxp\share-name is not accessible. You might not have
permission to use this network resource. ... Network path not found'.
Both PCs have
- latest hotfixes applied
- latest drivers installed
- simple file and print sharing disabled
- Windows XP firewall disabled
- ZoneAlarm Security Suite enabled (HOMEWLAN shows up in the Secure Zone on
both PC's)
- properly activated accounts for network access (via NET USER)
- Guest account disabled
- properly set User Rights Assignment for non-Guest authentication
- restrictanonymous = 0
- hidden = 0
- MaintainServerList = Auto
- no warnings/errors in Device Manager
- no warnings/errors in Event Protocol
PC1 / Pc2 have
- Service 'Computerbrowser' disabled / running
- IsDomainMaster = False / Yes
Here are 'ipconfig /all' and 'browstat status' for PC1:
Windows-IP-Konfiguration
Hostname. . . . . . . . . . . . . : desknote-winxp
Primäres DNS-Suffix . . . . . . . :
Knotentyp . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unbekannt
IP-Routing aktiviert. . . . . . . : Nein
WINS-Proxy aktiviert. . . . . . . : Nein
Ethernetadapter LAN-Verbindung:
Verbindungsspezifisches DNS-Suffix:
Beschreibung. . . . . . . . . . . : SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet
Adapter
Physikalische Adresse . . . . . . : 00-0A-E6-BA-8A-63
DHCP aktiviert. . . . . . . . . . : Ja
Autokonfiguration aktiviert . . . : Ja
IP-Adresse. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.100
Subnetzmaske. . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Standardgateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
DHCP-Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
DNS-Server. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
Lease erhalten. . . . . . . . . . : Donnerstag, 25. August 2005
08:59:47
Lease läuft ab. . . . . . . . . . : Donnerstag, 1. September 2005
08:59:47
Status for domain HOMEWLAN on transport
\Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{92926010-B84E-4A59-9B04-B20AB53CD499}
Browsing is active on domain.
Master browser name is: SOLOVINO-NB009
Master browser is running build 2600
1 backup servers retrieved from master SOLOVINO-NB009
\\SOLOVINO-NB009
There are 1 servers in domain HOMEWLAN on transport
\Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{92926010-B84E-4A59-9B04-B20AB53CD499}
There are 1 domains in domain HOMEWLAN on transport
\Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{92926010-B84E-4A59-9B04-B20AB53CD499}
And here the same for PC2:
Windows-IP-Konfiguration
Hostname. . . . . . . . . . . . . : solovino-nb00i9
Primäres DNS-Suffix . . . . . . . :
Knotentyp . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unbekannt
IP-Routing aktiviert. . . . . . . : Nein
WINS-Proxy aktiviert. . . . . . . : Nein
Ethernetadapter D-Link DWL-520+ WLAN:
Verbindungsspezifisches DNS-Suffix:
Beschreibung. . . . . . . . . . . : D-Link AirPlus DWL-520+ Wireless
PCI Adapter
Physikalische Adresse . . . . . . : 00-0D-88-AA-7E-F9
DHCP aktiviert. . . . . . . . . . : Ja
Autokonfiguration aktiviert . . . : Ja
IP-Adresse. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.201
Subnetzmaske. . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Standardgateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
DHCP-Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
DNS-Server. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
Lease erhalten. . . . . . . . . . : Donnerstag, 25. August 2005
08:51:18
Lease läuft ab. . . . . . . . . . : Donnerstag, 1. September 2005
08:51:18
Status for domain HOMEWLAN on transport
\Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{A4F4637A-E52B-491D-981C-DF8159B76CCA}
Browsing is active on domain.
Master browser name is: SOLOVINO-NB009
Master browser is running build 2600
1 backup servers retrieved from master SOLOVINO-NB009
\\SOLOVINO-NB009
There are 1 servers in domain HOMEWLAN on transport
\Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{A4F4637A-E52B-491D-981C-DF8159B76CCA}
There are 1 domains in domain HOMEWLAN on transport
\Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{A4F4637A-E52B-491D-981C-DF8159B76CCA}
Two remarks to the ipconfig output:
1. The hostname of PC2 is reported as 'solovino-nb00i9', but according to
Control Panel/System/Computername it should be 'solovino-nb009'. I searched
the registry, and found some entries for 'solovino-nb00i9' which I manually
changed to 'solovino-nb009', but still as you can see ipconfig shows
'solovino-nb00i9'!?
2. Knodetype is reported as 'Unknown'. on PC1, I tried to change that to
'Broadcast' by setting
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Netbt\Parameters\EnableProxy
= 0
No success as ipconfig shows.
I did a LSP / Winsock repair prior to above reports according to the
description in the guide (which involved LSPFix, WinSockFix, and XP SP2
onboard tools 'netsh int ip reset' and 'netsh winsock reset catalog') .
Unfortunately, that didn't help. I once again checked both PC's are in the
same workgroup. They can ping each other, and both have Internet connect.
I really have no clue what's going on here. I highly appreciate any hint
which could help me to remedy my File and Print Sharing problem.
Many thanks in advance for anyone's investigation.
Best Regards
Eckhardt Newger