Home network disappears

[Guest]

I have DSL with a netgear wireless router. On a toshiba laptop I have a netgear wireless card (wg511). Everything installed perfectly, shared printing and files. Happy guy. Then one day XP can't find my second drive. I installed a nice large maxtor sata drive, reinstalled XP to that drive, and reinstalled everything else I need. Everything works perfectly, except my windows networking. Computers have access to the internet, but not to each other. Printer invisible to laptop
The computers can see each other (IP ping) so the network infrastructure is there.
I've read the pages of advice on others sharing a similar fate, and haven't had any luck. Is there a way to unstall MSHome (or the equivalent) and start from scratch (not just rename it, I've done that). Mapping a network drive via IP address is a pretty pathetic solution, and doesn't solve my printer problem

All gratefully accepted...
-Walt

 

[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

I have DSL with a netgear wireless router. On a toshiba laptop I have a netgear wireless card (wg511). Everything installed perfectly, shared printing and files. Happy guy. Then one day XP can't find my second drive. I installed a nice large maxtor sata drive, reinstalled XP to that drive, and reinstalled everything else I need. Everything works perfectly, except my windows networking. Computers have access to the internet, but not to each other. Printer invisible to laptop.
The computers can see each other (IP ping) so the network infrastructure is there.
I've read the pages of advice on others sharing a similar fate, and haven't had any luck. Is there a way to unstall MSHome (or the equivalent) and start from scratch (not just rename it, I've done that). Mapping a network drive via IP address is a pretty pathetic solution, and doesn't solve my printer problem.

All gratefully accepted....
-Walt

Make sure that NetBIOS over TCP/IP is enabled:

1. Open the Network Connections folder.
2. Right click the local area network connection and click Properties.
3. Double click Internet Protocol (TCP/IP).
4. Click Advanced.
5. Click WINS.
6. Click the Enable NetBIOS Over TCP/IP button.

Run "ipconfig /all" and look at the "Node Type" at the beginning of
the output. If it says "Peer-to-Peer" (which should actually be
"Point-to-Point") that's the problem. It means that the computer only
uses a WINS server, which isn't available on a peer-to-peer network
for NetBIOS name resolution.

If that's the case, run the registry editor, open this key:

HLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Netbt\Parameters

and delete these values if they're present:

NodeType
DhcpNodeType

Reboot, then try network access again.

If that doesn't fix it, open that registry key again, create a DWORD
value called "NodeType", and set it to 1 for "Broadcast" or 4 for
"Mixed".

For details, see these Microsoft Knowledge Base articles:

Default Node Type for Microsoft Clients
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;160177

TCP/IP and NBT Configuration Parameters for Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314053
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Best Wishes,
Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

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[yep]

Make sure both firewalls are disabled