Network not accessible!!?

[Tony]

James,

I am no expert but have experienced this problem before.

1st dbl-clk on Network Neighborhood and setup a
home/office network.

2nd I noticed that the workgroup name should be the same
to work best for my taste.

I myself have 2 desktops and a laptop to deal with.

I hope the info helps.

Tony

-----Original Message-----
I have three PC's set up on a switch that has a WAN

connection. Two of the three are able to see each other
just fine. They are able to share files and printers. The
third one is unable to access or even see the other two.
It is able to access the internet just fine. When I try
to access the Network Neighborhood it tells me that it is
not accessable!! I have checked to see if there is a
firewall or something that would prevent it from seeing
the neighborhood. BTW all pc's are running WIN XP. Any
clue's or suggestions?

Please help. These PC's are in a Internet Cafe and the

one that is not working is the one that monitors Internet
useage..

 

[Cory]

I assume that they all have IP's in the same network? Do
you have a DHCP server or anything? You can check
your "hosts" file to make sure something is not
redirecting your PC. um....

-----Original Message-----
Thanks for the info.. I have done all of that. I have

also blown away everything in hopes that it will "wake
up". I am able to browse the pc from others on the
network.

 

[Haggis]

and of course you have turned off the firewall ?...

 

[Cory]

Just do a search for the HOSTS file. Open and verify that
it has on the entry: 127.0.0.1 localhost

Also its the one in C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc.
Can you ping the other machines?
Maybe try \\(MACHINE NAME)\and see if it prompts for
username.p.word

-----Original Message-----
The DHCP is on and it is up and running. It is getting a proper IP address.
The strange thing is that from the other PC's I can

occasionally browse the PC. I am going to start calling
the problem child Big Guy. Anyways, I am able to browse it
but it is unable to view any of the others. I still have a
connection to the internet just like the others.

 

[Cory]

How does this machine monitor internet usage?

-----Original Message-----
Cory,
ok.. thanks.. I did and... it shows 127.0.0.1 as the only thing there.

I have tried accessing the other PC's by doing the

\\(Machine Name) I get the same error.

Haggis,

As stated in the begining of my post, I did make sure of

that. I know that just about every time I made a change it
almost always turned that back on. So I have been makeing
sure that it is off. Still no change...

 

[Cory]

So I would say you have some sort of port mirroring on the
switch? I had a similar problem when I enabled the port
mirroring, but it doesn't sound like anything has changed
on the switch lately. What type of network/equipment are
you using?(MS obviously.WAN is for the internet
connection?) Sounds to me like something on the port the
switch is on is not configed correctly. Just a guess but
like I said I had a similar situation here.

-----Original Message-----
It has a small program that times how long someone is on

the internet on either one of the two other PC's (named
black and white). This is a program that someone made for
the owner so I am not very sure about the program. When
someone logs on one of the WINXP machines it starts
timeing them. This has been up and running for a very long
time. The only thing that changed was when we renamed the
workgroup name on all of the pc's at the same time. Since
then it has not worked. no other changes have been done.
The name for the workgroup is the same on all of three of
the PC's. We have tried accessing the other PC's with out
the program running and with. It give the same error both
ways.

 

[Guest]

ok.. well I will take a look at it and see tomorrow.. Thanks for your input.