Unable to connect to workgroup

[Guest]

I have a laptop running Win XP SP2, and a DSL connection using a DLink
wireless router (connected by Ethernet to a computer running Win2K), and a
DLink Air-Plus PCMCIA card. My signal strength is excellent, and I have not
problem connecting to the Internet. When I try to connect to my workgroup
(MSHOME), however, I get the following error message:

"Mshome is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network
resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have
access permissions.

The list of servers from this workgroup is not currently available."

I began receiving this error message when I returned from a business trip.
The hotel in which I stayed offered wireless internet access, but I had to
reconfigure my TCP/IP settings to make it work. I wrote down the previous
settings, and reconfigured when I returned home, but have not been able to
connect to the workgroup since I returned. Is it possible that the hotel's
wireless network somehow rewrote my permissions? Nothing has changed on the
computer running Win2K. What should I look for to correct this problem?
Thanks in advance for your help.

 

[Malke]

I have a laptop running Win XP SP2, and a DSL connection using a DLink
wireless router (connected by Ethernet to a computer running Win2K),
and a DLink Air-Plus PCMCIA card. My signal strength is excellent, and
I have not problem connecting to the Internet. When I try to connect
to my workgroup (MSHOME), however, I get the following error message:

"Mshome is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this
network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out
if you have access permissions.

The list of servers from this workgroup is not currently available."

I began receiving this error message when I returned from a business
trip. The hotel in which I stayed offered wireless internet access,
but I had to reconfigure my TCP/IP settings to make it work. I wrote
down the previous settings, and reconfigured when I returned home, but
have not been able to connect to the workgroup since I returned. Is it
possible that the hotel's wireless network somehow rewrote my
permissions? Nothing has changed on the computer running Win2K. What
should I look for to correct this problem? Thanks in advance for your
help.

The quickest and easiest way to fix this is to run the Network Setup
Wizard again on your laptop. Watch out for the "gotcha" that doing this
will enable the Windows Firewall, so if you are running a third-party
firewall you'll need to disable WF afterwards.

Malke

 

[Chuck]

On Fri, 3 Jun 2005 08:45:10 -0700, "Dan Dennis" <Dan

I have a laptop running Win XP SP2, and a DSL connection using a DLink
wireless router (connected by Ethernet to a computer running Win2K), and a
DLink Air-Plus PCMCIA card. My signal strength is excellent, and I have not
problem connecting to the Internet. When I try to connect to my workgroup
(MSHOME), however, I get the following error message:

"Mshome is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network
resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have
access permissions.

The list of servers from this workgroup is not currently available."

I began receiving this error message when I returned from a business trip.
The hotel in which I stayed offered wireless internet access, but I had to
reconfigure my TCP/IP settings to make it work. I wrote down the previous
settings, and reconfigured when I returned home, but have not been able to
connect to the workgroup since I returned. Is it possible that the hotel's
wireless network somehow rewrote my permissions? Nothing has changed on the
computer running Win2K. What should I look for to correct this problem?
Thanks in advance for your help.

Dan,

There are numerous changes that you can make to a Windows operating system to
cause the "list of servers from this workgroup is not currently available."
error. Try this guide which enumerates each possibility:
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/troubleshooting-network-neighborhood.html>