Home network not accessible

[Guest]

I have set up a home network with my Dell P4 desktop and my Dell P4 laptop.
The desktop is connected to a router by ethernet cable; the laptop is
connected wirelessly. Both machines run XP Home. Until today it had worked
without problems. Today, when I tried to access the network on my desktop,
the "My Network Places" Window was blank. When I clicked on "View Workgroup
computers" in the Explorer bar, I received the following message after an
interval: "[My network's name] is not accessible. You might not have
permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator... The
list of servers for this workgroup is not currently available." I am logged
on to both computers as administrator.
I tried setting up the network again using the network wizard, with the same
results.
Any suggestions?

 

[Chuck]

I have set up a home network with my Dell P4 desktop and my Dell P4 laptop.
The desktop is connected to a router by ethernet cable; the laptop is
connected wirelessly. Both machines run XP Home. Until today it had worked
without problems. Today, when I tried to access the network on my desktop,
the "My Network Places" Window was blank. When I clicked on "View Workgroup
computers" in the Explorer bar, I received the following message after an
interval: "[My network's name] is not accessible. You might not have
permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator... The
list of servers for this workgroup is not currently available." I am logged
on to both computers as administrator.
I tried setting up the network again using the network wizard, with the same
results.
Any suggestions?

There are several possibilities here.
# Firewall.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/troubleshooting-network-neighborhood.html#Security>
# Browser conflict.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/browstat-utility-from-microsoft.html>
Registry setting restrictanonymous.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/07/restrictanonymous-and-your-server.html>
Guest account settings.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/06/file-sharing-under-windows-xp.html#Help>

If no help yet, post output from "browstat status" and "ipconfig /all" here, and
we'll diagnose the problem.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/troubleshooting-network-neighborhood.html#AskingForHelp>