File & printer sharing not working

[leo]

I asked the same question before but got no good answers. Here comes again.

I have a laptop with XP Pro installed using deafult setting. Network
Neighbood works beautifully. The laptop can see the Shared Docs folders and
printers of all the computers. The Workgroup name is set as "WORKGROUP" with
no password.

Then my girl took the laptop to school. All she did was connecting it to the
ethernet jack at the dorm to connect to the Internet. She's not doing any
fancy filesharing at school.

Once the laptop returns home, filesharing no longer works. Viewing workgroup
computers yield, "... (workgroup) not accessible. You might not have
permission to use this network resources. ..." message

I used the network setup wizard to no avail.

What's going on?

Configuration:
Windows XP SP2
Norton AntiVirus 2005

 

[Ron Bogart]

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I asked the same question before but got no good answers. Here comes
again.
I have a laptop with XP Pro installed using deafult setting. Network
Neighbood works beautifully. The laptop can see the Shared Docs
folders and printers of all the computers. The Workgroup name is set
as "WORKGROUP" with no password.

Then my girl took the laptop to school. All she did was connecting it
to the ethernet jack at the dorm to connect to the Internet. She's
not doing any fancy filesharing at school.

Once the laptop returns home, filesharing no longer works. Viewing
workgroup computers yield, "... (workgroup) not accessible. You might
not have permission to use this network resources. ..." message

I used the network setup wizard to no avail.

What's going on?

Configuration:
Windows XP SP2
Norton AntiVirus 2005

Is there any router or firewall involved? Is there an account for this
person on the other machines in question?

 

[leo]

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Is there any router or firewall involved? Is there an account for this
person on the other machines in question?

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Yes, there is a router at home. Not router at the dorm.
I suspect firewall but nobody is changing any setting. I can see the urge of
the school to disable file sharing at school but I wonder how could it be
done remotely and I can't make it working again at home.

 

[Ron Bogart]

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Yes, there is a router at home. Not router at the dorm.
I suspect firewall but nobody is changing any setting. I can see the
urge of the school to disable file sharing at school but I wonder how
could it be done remotely and I can't make it working again at home.

Go to Start - Run - CMD.exe and run ipconfig on each machine and see whet
IP's, Subnet Mask and Default Gateway are being assigned. The check the
router to see if it will allow the IP's that are there.

 

[leo]

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Is there any router or firewall involved? Is there an account for this
person on the other machines in question?

--
Ron Bogart {} ô¿ô¬
Associate Expert
Expert Zone -
"Life is what happens while we are making other plans."

I disabled Windows Firewall and Norton Internet Worm Protection but I still
get the same error msg.

 

[leo]

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Go to Start - Run - CMD.exe and run ipconfig on each machine and see whet
IP's, Subnet Mask and Default Gateway are being assigned. The check the
router to see if it will allow the IP's that are there.

--
Ron Bogart {} ô¿ô¬
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"Life is what happens while we are making other plans."

IP, subnet mask and default gateway look normal (similar to other PCs at
home). The laptop can browse the Internet; just can't see other PCs or
printers. I don't think router would stop filesharing but allow Internet
use, right?

 

[Ron Bogart]

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IP, subnet mask and default gateway look normal (similar to other PCs
at home). The laptop can browse the Internet; just can't see other
PCs or printers. I don't think router would stop filesharing but
allow Internet use, right?

You are correct - the router would stop all activity is that were the case.
Dou you have an account for 'your girl' on machines in question? Since you
are on a router, can you try disabling the firewall on one of the machines
that can't be seen and see if this makes any difference? While behind the
router you should be safe for the test.

 

[leo]

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You are correct - the router would stop all activity is that were the
case. Dou you have an account for 'your girl' on machines in question?
Since you are on a router, can you try disabling the firewall on one of
the machines that can't be seen and see if this makes any difference?
While behind the router you should be safe for the test.

--
Ron Bogart {} ô¿ô¬
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Expert Zone -
"Life is what happens while we are making other plans."

I tried disabling Windows Firewall and Norton Internet Worm Protection on
the laptop and one PC. The laptop simply doesn't see anything in the local
network, not even the printer server. I would suspect the XP system was
corrupted if it had not happened before - filesharing stops right after the
laptop returns from school. I reinstalled the OS once so this proofed that
something's going on in the vast school network. I need some simple
instruction to restall file/printer sharing at home. It's tough to print
without access to the local network! ;-)

 

[Ron Bogart]

In

I tried disabling Windows Firewall and Norton Internet Worm
Protection on the laptop and one PC. The laptop simply doesn't see
anything in the local network, not even the printer server. I would
suspect the XP system was corrupted if it had not happened before -
filesharing stops right after the laptop returns from school. I
reinstalled the OS once so this proofed that something's going on in
the vast school network. I need some simple instruction to restall
file/printer sharing at home. It's tough to print without access to
the local network! ;-)

Does the rest of the network see the laptop? Just trying to see if this is
one-directional or bi-directional.

 

[leo]

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Does the rest of the network see the laptop? Just trying to see if this
is one-directional or bi-directional.

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Ron Bogart {} ô¿ô¬
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Bi-directional. Nobody can see the laptop either. I am dumbfounded because
nobody has changed any settings on the laptop. What could a T1 line do to
the poor little laptop! Restoring the printing capability at home is the
prority. There are assignments that need to be printed or transfered to the
desktops or vice versa.

 

[ether.real]

-----Original Message-----



Bi-directional. Nobody can see the laptop either. I am dumbfounded because
nobody has changed any settings on the laptop. What could a T1 line do to
the poor little laptop! Restoring the printing capability at home is the
prority. There are assignments that need to be printed or transfered to the
desktops or vice versa.


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Try uninstalling any internet connections (ICS, VPN,etc).
Then go to Start->Run, type "cmd" then in the DOS box
enter "ipconfig/release_all" without the quotes. Then, re-
run the Network Setup Wizard and reboot.

hth
ether

 

[Ron Bogart]

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I tried disabling Windows Firewall and Norton Internet Worm
Protection on the laptop and one PC. The laptop simply doesn't see
anything in the local network, not even the printer server. I would
suspect the XP system was corrupted if it had not happened before -
filesharing stops right after the laptop returns from school. I
reinstalled the OS once so this proofed that something's going on in
the vast school network. I need some simple instruction to restall
file/printer sharing at home. It's tough to print without access to
the local network! ;-)

You didn't mention if the logged on user of the laptop has a user account on
any of the other machines - unless I have missed it while reading the posts.

 

[leo]

You didn't mention if the logged on user of the laptop has a user account
on any of the other machines - unless I have missed it while reading the
posts.

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I don't quite understand your question so I would say NO. The laptop user is
unique and all I simply want is to be able to access the shared docs of
other PCs and use the printers over the local network.

 

[Ron Bogart]

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I don't quite understand your question so I would say NO. The laptop
user is unique and all I simply want is to be able to access the
shared docs of other PCs and use the printers over the local network.

Please try this:
Go into Control Panel for the machine you wish to access and click on 'User
Accounts' and then 'Create a new account'. Give the account your laptop
users Name (the same name they use to log on to the laptop) and click next.
Select Limited Account and choose Create Account. Do the same with the
Laptop by adding the user name for the computer you used to add the laptop
user. Now reboot both computers and see if they now see each other.

 

[leo]

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Please try this:
Go into Control Panel for the machine you wish to access and click on
'User Accounts' and then 'Create a new account'. Give the account your
laptop users Name (the same name they use to log on to the laptop) and
click next. Select Limited Account and choose Create Account. Do the same
with the Laptop by adding the user name for the computer you used to add
the laptop user. Now reboot both computers and see if they now see each
other.

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Ron Bogart {} ô¿ô¬
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Expert Zone -
"Life is what happens while we are making other plans."

I'll do that later but the question remain that the laptop cannot see the
workgroup network altogether and also other printer servers (the are
standalone device, not printer sharing in other PCs). When I use the network
wizard, I did make sure to enable file/printer sharing capability.

 

[SlowJet]

If you never had the LAPuser's account on any of the other machines and it
used to work, then that means you are authorizing through the guest account.

Enable all the guest accounts to see if it works.

If that does not work, then the block is at the router because you have
tried everthing else.
I don't know anything about the router except that it seems like it would
have to have some subnet / bridge set to go through it with the non routing
IP like 198.168.0.x

If the guest accounts do work, then you should work on setting the up user
accounts with classic and set permissions to authorised users rather than
Everyone, because anyone accessing you net can do anything to the shared
folders.

SJ

 

[Ron Bogart]

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I'll do that later but the question remain that the laptop cannot see
the workgroup network altogether and also other printer servers (the
are standalone device, not printer sharing in other PCs). When I use
the network wizard, I did make sure to enable file/printer sharing
capability.

Anxiously awaiting your results.