On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 08:43:05 -0700, "Adrian Buer" <Adrian
Hi,
I am on a network of 4 people in my house. Broadband and gaming works fine
apart from me being able to access other people's computers. When I open
Network Places it takes a while to search and only shows me online, when I
try to view workgroup computers, it freezes and eventually says it's not
accessible and I may not have permission etc, list of servers not available.
It has only done this since upgrading to the new XP Service Pack, it worked
fine before.
The Windows firewall is turned off. I run XP Pro.
Thanks
Adrian,
What operating systems on the other 3 (?) computers? Windows XP? A mixture?
If XP, Home or Pro? All of this makes a difference.
Are all computers in the same workgroup?
Are you running both Client for Microsoft Networks, and File and Printer Sharing
for Microsoft Networks (Local Area Connection - Properties), on each computer?
Do you have shares setup on each?
Are you running NetBIOS Over TCP/IP (Local Area Connection - Properties - TCP/IP
- Properties - Advanced - WINS) on each computer?
Make sure the browser service is running on each computer. Control Panel -
Administrative Tools - Services. Verify that the Computer Browser, and the
TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper, services both show with Status = Started.
On any XP Pro computer, check to see if Simple File Sharing (Control Panel -
Folder Options - View - Advanced settings) is enabled or disabled. With XP Pro,
you need to have SFS properly set on each computer.
On XP Pro with SFS disabled, check the Local Security Policies (Control Panel -
Administrative Tools). Under Local Policies - Security Options, look at
"Network access: Sharing and security model", and ensure it's set to "Classic -
local users authenticate as themselves".
On XP Pro with SFS disabled, if you set the above Local Security Policy to
"Guest only", enable the Guest account, using Start - Run - "cmd" - type "net
user guest /active:yes" in the command window. If "Classic", setup and use a
common non-Guest account on all computers. Whichever account is used, give it
an identical, non-blank password on all computers.
On XP Home, and on XP Pro with Simple File Sharing enabled, make sure that the
Guest account is enabled, on each computer. Enable Guest with Start - Run -
"cmd" - type "net user guest /active:yes" in the command window.
On XP Pro, if you're going to use Guest authentication, check your Local
Security Policy (Control Panel - Administrative Tools) - User Rights Assignment,
on the XP Pro computer, and look at "Deny access to this computer from the
network". Make sure Guest is not in the list.
Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.
