peer to peer problems

[robin hodgson]

I am having trouble getting a pair of windows 2000
machines to talk via the peer to peer networking.

One of the machines seems to work OK: it can see itself as
one of the "machines near me", and it can browse its own
shared files. It can also see the other machine as an
entry in the same "machine near me" list. I can't open
the other machine though: I get an error "workgroup is not
accessible. The list of servers for this workgroup is not
currently available."

I have checked the knowledge base, I have enabled netBIOS
over TCPIP, I have rebooted my machines to "force a
reelection of a master browser" so many times, I can't
count. Nothing works.

On the other machine, it can only see itself in
the "machines near me" explorer folder. It can browse its
own files, but does not even see the other machine at all.

Any ideas?

Robin (robin_hodgson at hotmail com)

 

[PC_Wiz]

- Are you using a DHCP server to assign an IP or are you using a stati
IP address?
- Can you ping either machines?
What happen?
- Can you browse by going to start/run and entering \\machineName?
- What happen?
- Make sure that Client for Microsoft Networks, File and Printe
Sharing for Microsoft Networks and TCP/IP are present.
-Make sure that user1 has an account on computer2 and vice versa.
- Make sure they are on the same workgroup.
- Make sure they are on the same subnet.
- Do you have a router?
- Is there a firewall? If yes uninstall it.
- Is there a antivirus software installed? If yes remove it.

What happen is safe mode with networking can you access shares?

To start tshoot issue you could enable the guest account on bot
computers.
You can try to add NetBeui on both machine and that should resolve th
issue

PC_Wi