My Network Places browsing not working.

[Ashley Heaton]

We have a 4 machine Windows 2000 peer to peer network in
place. 3 of the machines work fine, but we have a single
workstation that is unable to use My Network Places. If
you try to open it and browse the network you get the
following error.

<workgroup name> is not accessible, the volume does not
contain a recognized file system. Please make sure that
all required file system drivers are loaded and that the
file system is not corrupted.

Can ping other machines, and even browse to them via the
RUN box by typing in their names and share paths. No
servers are present for DNS or anything on this network.

User really wants to be able to browse network, prefers
this to mapped drives or shortcuts on the desktop.

Any help anyone could provide is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Ashley Heaton
Systems Engineer
Nex-Tech

 

[Steven L Umbach]

I have never seen that error for accessing My Network Places and it sounds like the
error is referring to a totally different problem - file system?? Look in Event
Viewer on that computer for any unusual errors. A couple things worth a try.

-- Make sure user does not have any unusual network protection application installed,
and try booting into safe mode with networking to see if it makes a difference which
would indicate a conflict with a startup service/application.

-- Try unistalling Client for Microsoft Networks, rebooting, and reinstalling.

-- In Device Manager, unistall network adapter and reboot to reinstall it.

-- Run System File Checker as in sfc /scannow.

-- Try a different network card.

-- Do an in place upgrade of the operating system that should preserve data and
applications, but require you to first install the service pack and then all critical
updates.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q292175

I don't know if any of the above will fix the problem fore sure, though the upgrade
install does fix a lot of problems. --- Steve