Not seeing all workstations on a workgroup?

[John Leonard - Sage]

I have a workgroup setup with six computers and one printer. WinXP
Professional and Home are the clients (SP1 only).
Up to a few days ago, every thing was working great!

Now I have a funny situation - as follows:

1) The primary file server can see all nodes except two of them.

2) I can see the two nodes from anyother workstation on the group.

3) From the two nodes that I cannot see from the file server - I cannot see
the file server. I can see all other workstations, even the printer.

I have checked all cables, drops, and moved them around on the hubs. All
stays the same (cannot see the two from the file server or the two cannot
see the file server), no matter what I do?


Never saw a problem like this before.

Anyone Ideals?

 

[John Leonard - Sage]

Any Ideals on this?

 

[John Leonard - Sage]

Found the problem.

Anyone interested in this - What I found was that one of the NIC cards was
configured wrong. It did not have IPX/SPX and NetBIOS. The other NICs did
have and caused all kinds of problems with the network.

The main reason for IPX/SPX and NetBIOS usage, was an application installed
required it.

Just thought it might help someone.