Home Office Network

[Guest]

Trying to set-up a small office network. Two desktop computers and on laptop
computer. Using Windows XP Professional on the desktops and Windows XP Home
Edition on the laptop.

Also have Norton Internet Security 2007 as my firewall.

Use the Windows XP Set-up wizard and followed the dialogue boxes. Did not
create a network disk to use on each computer. Used Windows XP disc.

When I go into My Network Places and select the View Workgroup Computers, I
Keep receivng an error message:
Network is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network
resource. Contact the Administrator of this server to find out if you have
access permission. List of servers for this Workgroup currently not
available.

Do I shut down Norton Security 2007 on all computers and try again? Not
sure what the message says, since I am the Administrator.

Thank you,

Jackson97

 

[Malke]

Trying to set-up a small office network. Two desktop computers and on
laptop
computer. Using Windows XP Professional on the desktops and Windows
XP Home Edition on the laptop.

Also have Norton Internet Security 2007 as my firewall.

Use the Windows XP Set-up wizard and followed the dialogue boxes. Did
not
create a network disk to use on each computer. Used Windows XP disc.

When I go into My Network Places and select the View Workgroup
Computers, I Keep receivng an error message:
Network is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this
network
resource. Contact the Administrator of this server to find out if you
have
access permission. List of servers for this Workgroup currently not
available.

This is most commonly caused by a misconfigured firewall. Run the
Network Setup Wizard on all computers, making sure to enable File &
Printer Sharing, and reboot. The only "gotcha" is that this will turn
on the XPSP2 Windows Firewall. If you aren't running a third-party
firewall or have an antivirus with "Internet Worm Protection" (like
Norton 2005/06) which acts as a firewall, then you're fine. If you have
third-party firewall software, configure it to allow the Local Area
Network traffic as trusted. I usually do this with my firewalls with an
IP range. Ex. would be 192.168.1.0-192.168.1.254. Obviously you would
substitute your correct subnet.

Since you have NIS, you would configure it to allow the lan as trusted
per the above.

If one or more of the computers is XP Pro or Media Center:

a. If you need Pro's ability to set fine-grained permissions, turn off
Simple File Sharing (Folder Options>View tab) and create identical user
accounts/passwords on all computers.

b. If you don't care about using Pro's advanced features, leave the
Simple File Sharing enabled.

Simple File Sharing means that Guest (network) is enabled. This means
that anyone without a user account on the target system can use its
resources. This is a security hole but only you can decide if it
matters in your situation.

Then create shares as desired. XP Home does not permit sharing of users'
home directories (My Documents) or Program Files, but you can share
folders inside those directories. A better choice is to simply use the
Shared Documents folder.

If that doesn't work for you, here is an excellent network
troubleshooter by MVP Hans-Georg Michna. Take the time to go through it
and it will usually pinpoint the problem area(s) -
http://winhlp.com/wxnet.htm

Malke

 

[Paul Knudsen]

Do I shut down Norton Security 2007 on all computers and try again? Not
sure what the message says, since I am the Administrator.

I have 2005. I can't find exactly where just now, but someplace in
NIS you have to plug in all the valid IP addresses in your network for
them to be accessable.