Help please! Can't browse workgroup

[Guest]

I have a small office network where there is an XP Home PC that is directly
connected to a Wireless hub, which is directly connected to a DSL line.
Other laptops in the office are using wireless to connect through the hub to
the Internet. Everything is working properly in that regard.

The problem I am having is that the Win XP Home PC has a local printer
attached and I would like to share that with another laptop that is running
Windows 98.

Both the XP Home PC and the 98 laptop are members of the same Workgroup and
have IP addresses that are within the appropriate range. I enabled File &
Printer sharing on the XP Home PC and that appeared to go well. However,
when I attempt to browse for the shared printer from the 98 laptop, it cannot
find the XP Home PC.

I attempted to browse via Network Neighborhood, but I only get as far as
Entire Network and then I get an error saying the network is not available
(or something to that effect). I do not even see the workgroup name.
However, I can ping the XP Home PC from the 98 laptop using both the IP
address or the NetBios name of the XP Home PC and I get successful replies
either way. I just can't seem to "see" it from within Windows.

Does anyone have any idea on how to resolve this? I am planning to revisit
this office tomorrow and would welcome any suggestions you might have.

Thank you!

 

[Robert L [MS-MVP]]

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.... is not accessible

Message: "....is not accessible. You may not have permission to use this
network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if
you have access permissions. Network path was not found."

Resolutions:
1) make sure no any firewall running.
2) make sure you have created the same workgroup, and the same username on
w2k/xp for logging on a remote computer.
3) check user's rights.
4) you may want to enable guest account on w2k/xp.
5) if you are using simple file sharing, you may try to disable it and
re-share the drive manually.
6) if it is mixed OS (win98, NT, ME and W2K/XP) network, enable NetBIOS over
TCP/IP.
7) make sure the Computer Browser service is started if all computers are
w2k/xp.
8) stop Computer Browser service on win9x, ME and NT if this is a mixed OS
network.
9) cache credential by using net use \\computername\share /user:username
command (it is better to have the username logon shared computer).
10) if you have tried enabling netbios over tcp/ip but doesn't work, you may
try to load netbeui (loading netbeui may slow your network).
11) Make sure the server service is running.
12) If you can see the share in Network Neighborhood but not access it, this
issue may be resolved by verifying that both the share permissions and the
NTFS partition permissions are correctly configured for individual user or
group access.


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[Guest]

Robert L, thank you so much for pointing me in the right direction. I am now
able to see the XP PC and shared folders, but I am still not able to see
shared printers. Any ideas?

Thanks!
D

 

[Guest]

Nevermind! I realized the shared printer name was too long for 98 to
recognize. Problem solved!'
Thanks again!

 

[Kurt Schmidt]

quoted from http://www.ChicagoTech.net
Message: "....is not accessible. You may not have permission to use this
network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if
you have access permissions. Network path was not found."

Resolutions:
2) make sure you have created the same workgroup, and the same username on
w2k/xp for logging on a remote computer.
3) check user's rights.
4) you may want to enable guest account on w2k/xp.
5) if you are using simple file sharing, you may try to disable it and
re-share the drive manually.
6) if it is mixed OS (win98, NT, ME and W2K/XP) network, enable NetBIOS over
TCP/IP.
7) make sure the Computer Browser service is started if all computers are
w2k/xp.
8) stop Computer Browser service on win9x, ME and NT if this is a mixed OS
network.
9) cache credential by using net use \\computername\share /user:username
command (it is better to have the username logon shared computer).
10) if you have tried enabling netbios over tcp/ip but doesn't work, you may
try to load netbeui (loading netbeui may slow your network).
11) Make sure the server service is running.
12) If you can see the share in Network Neighborhood but not access it, this
issue may be resolved by verifying that both the share permissions and the
NTFS partition permissions are correctly configured for individual user or
group access.

None of this seems to work for me. Maybe I do not get what should be done.
Here, with apologies again, is my problem's description:

[...]
Call the computers A and B.

A can see B [it shows up in the workgroup]
A can see all of B's shared folders
B can see A
B cannot login to A to use any shared resources. When it tries, B gets the "Login
Failure: the user has not been granted the requested logon type..." message.
[...]

Hear, Hear! I don't know if anyone is responsible or it is through design,
but I am experiencing the same symptoms! I am working with XP Pro on both
computers.

Incidentally, I tried to add on "A" \\B\UserloggedOnB as well as
B\UserLoggedOnB to "A's" "Access this computer from the network" but could
not do it. I did add the B computer to this category on "A", but that did
not help. When trying to add items to this category on "A" I can see the
Workgroup and I can see computer A, but I cannot chose anything from
computer B.

Any help much appreciated.

Hear, Hear!

When explaining how to fix it please assume, in my case, that you are
writing to a networking/Win XP simpleton - thanks much .

Thanks,
Kurt

P.S. Appologies about posting to the Win2000 forum, I am following a thread
and I do not know how to cross-post on here!

Help would be so much appreciated!!!

Thanks,
Kurt

 

[Hans-Georg Michna]

"Login Failure: the user has not been granted the requested logon type..." message.
[...]

Hear, Hear! I don't know if anyone is responsible or it is through design,
but I am experiencing the same symptoms! I am working with XP Pro on both
computers.

Kurt,

please use http://www.michna.com/kb/wxnet.htm to solve this
problem.

Hans-Georg

 

[Kurt Schmidt]

"Login Failure: the user has not been granted the requested logon type..." message.
[...]

I am experiencing the same symptoms! I am working with XP Pro on both

please use http://www.michna.com/kb/wxnet.htm to solve this
problem.

Hi Hans!

Thanks, but I think that would require me knowing what I am doing . I
ended up with both computers completely messed up, not seeing the DHCP, the
internet, nothing. Took me 8 hours, until 5 in the morning to get one of
them connecting to the internet, and I am not even sure what I did to get it
working again. However, it now absolutely will not use my WiFi connection,
only my neighbor's. In other words, HHHEEELLLPPP!

Kurt (darn it, cans with string were enough for me)