Getting Unable to Browse network from clients

[Dave]

Hi,

We have a simple peer-to-peer network of 6 Windows 98SE
machines and one Win2K (pro). We use the Win2K machine as
a web proxy and email server.

For some reason, we can no longer browse the network on
the Win98SE machines, if we select "Network Neighbourhood"
or through explorer we get "Unable to browse network". We
can ping between all the machines and from the Win2k
machine we can "see" all the other machines and connect to
shared resources. I thought it was because we connected a
second Win2K laptop and it seemed to stop the computer
browser on the "main" win2k machine but we have
disconnected the 2nd Win2k, restarted the main win2k
machine and the computer browser is running.

Now what can I try ?

 

[Guest]

Hi,

We have a simple peer-to-peer network of 6 Windows 98SE
machines and one Win2K (pro). We use the Win2K machine as
a web proxy and email server.

For some reason, we can no longer browse the network on
the Win98SE machines, if we select "Network Neighbourhood"
or through explorer we get "Unable to browse network". We
can ping between all the machines and from the Win2k
machine we can "see" all the other machines and connect to
shared resources. I thought it was because we connected a
second Win2K laptop and it seemed to stop the computer
browser on the "main" win2k machine but we have
disconnected the 2nd Win2k, restarted the main win2k
machine and the computer browser is running.

Just solved this on a machine running 98.
I uninstalled all the network settings and reinstalled them.
Make sure you set the same workgroup and if your using static IP addresses
make sure you set
the default gateway on each machine to the same address as the machine,
unless your running a DHCP server in
which case this should be picked up automatically.

Jud

 

[Madhur Ahuja]

Hi,

We have a simple peer-to-peer network of 6 Windows 98SE
machines and one Win2K (pro). We use the Win2K machine as
a web proxy and email server.

For some reason, we can no longer browse the network on
the Win98SE machines, if we select "Network Neighbourhood"
or through explorer we get "Unable to browse network". We
can ping between all the machines and from the Win2k
machine we can "see" all the other machines and connect to
shared resources. I thought it was because we connected a
second Win2K laptop and it seemed to stop the computer
browser on the "main" win2k machine but we have
disconnected the 2nd Win2k, restarted the main win2k
machine and the computer browser is running.

Now what can I try ?

Hello
Some thing I can think of :
* NetBios is disabled.
* Check if any firewall is activated
* Try doing directly \\computername or \\ipaddress
* File an print sharing disabled

Paste here the result of ipconfig /all of Win2k computer.

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Madhur Ahuja
India

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