Suddenly cannot access SMB services from XP Pro machine

[larwe]

I have a notebook running XP Pro in a simple peer-peer network of Mac,
Linux and XP Home/Pro machines at home. Everything was running fine. I
took it to work (hybrid NT/Netware system) and plugged it into the
network (I didn't explicitly change any settings, I just needed to
access the Internet briefly).

Now back at home I can't access any SMB shares. I can ping and VNC to
other machines and access the Internet just fine; I simply can't browse
or connect to anything over SMB.

When I type NET VIEW I get:
System error 6118 has occurred.
The list of servers for this workgroup is not currently available.

I've tried repairing the connection, tried setting
HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Browser\Parameters\IsDomainMaster
to TRUE, etc.

I do notice that the first time I turned on the machine after returning
I see a log entry:

The browser was unable to retrieve a list of servers from the browser
master \\NETVISTA on the network
\Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{9A128C58-1176-4BB9-90D4-51EC85436EC4}. The data is
the error code.

and a few:

The browser service has failed to retrieve the backup list too many
times on transport
\Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{9A128C58-1176-4BB9-90D4-51EC85436EC4}. The backup
browser is stopping.

But I'm not sure what to do with that. I did try restarting NETVISTA.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

 

[larwe]

I have a notebook running XP Pro in a simple peer-peer network of Mac,
Linux and XP Home/Pro machines at home. Everything was running fine. I
took it to work (hybrid NT/Netware system) and plugged it into the
network (I didn't explicitly change any settings, I just needed to
access the Internet briefly).

Now back at home I can't access any SMB shares. I can ping and VNC to

OK, if anyone cares here is the solution: Some DHCP servers permanently
pollute your Windows XP NetBT configuration. Stupid handling of this
situation, typical of Microsoft products.

Go to
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NetBT\Parameters\DhcpNodeType
and set it to 1. (The "polluted" value is 2).